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December 13, 2021

Tinybird Engineering Blog

Changelog #17: Guided tour, Kafka ingestion improvements and more

Lots has been happening at Tinybird. The team is growing fast and everybody is working to improve the developer experience. Here are some recent features and updates that you may have missed.

December 10, 2021

Vitess Blog

LFX experience

I was a part of the LFX Fall Intern program working on Vitess for 2021 and it was a great learning experience for me. I got introduced to Kubernetes in my previous internship through which I came to know about CNCF and then about the LFX program (CNCF is part of the LinuxFoundation). Participating in LFX Intern program helped me develop my interest towards the internals of databases, query parsing and distributed systems, topics which I hope to explore in my final year.

December 09, 2021

Tinybird Engineering Blog

Performance and Kafka compression

The **unmodified** support message we sent to one of our clients outlining potential performance gains through Kafka compression

December 08, 2021

Avinash Sajjanshetty

Recurse Center Day 24: Hacking Go compiler to add a new keyword

I forked and modified Go compiler to add a new keyword called let, as alias for var

December 06, 2021

Vitess Blog

Connecteam - our Vitess story

Connecteam is a SaaS company that provides an employee management solution for deskless teams. Over the last couple of years, we’ve been growing tremendously and we recently started to face one of the hardest technical challenges: horizontal scaling. In the era of cloud computing, provisioning new resources is a breeze, but handling those resources in an efficient manner and providing a five nines uptime while allowing a fast-paced development environment is not an easy undertaking.

December 03, 2021

Supabase Blog

December 02, 2021

Avinash Sajjanshetty

Recurse Center Day 20: Django v4 upgrade (from v1)

I worked on upgrading a Django project from v1 to v4