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As technology evolves, one thing that contrasts REST and is gaining popularity is GraphQL. But what is it exactly? Within this post, we will learn what GraphQL is all about!
We recently released ShopifyQL Notebooks, a powerful self-serve tool which enables merchants to explore their business metrics without any SQL expertise. Here’s how we used ShopifyQL and commerce data models to make it possible.
As more clients rely on GraphQL to query data, we witness performance and scalability issues emerging. We share some query strategies for GraphQL at scale.
Authors: Brad Nicholson, Andrew Tanner, Marco Montagna Instacart runs one of the largest PostgreSQL fleets on top of AWS RDS, and part of managing a fleet like this is to keep it up to date....
Authors: Mostafa Abdelraouf, Zain Kabani, Andrew Tanner In this post, we’ll be talking about PgCat , an open-source Postgresql Proxy that we have been using in production and contributing to. It provides connection pooling, load-balancing,...
In today’s world of data breaches and privacy concerns, every measure you can take to protect your data is another brick in the wall defending you. At Instacart , no matter how confident we feel...
All Spotify users are now stored in a Cassandra database instead of Postgres. The final switch was made on May 11th, and we, the team responsible for user login at Spotify, would like to tell you a little bit about this endeavour.
Authors: Ankit Mittal, Vinesh Gudla, Guanghua Shu, Akshay Nair, Tejaswi Tenneti, Andrew Tanner In a previous blog post “ Improving search at Instacart using hybrid recall ”, we shared our progress on adaptively combining traditional...