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Scaling Rails and Postgres to millions of users at Microsoft

Do you have a Rails app built on PostgreSQL and need to scale it to millions of users? In this interview, I speak with Andrew Atkinson, one of StepChange's expert consultants, who brings deep expertise in optimizing Rails applications for performance and scalability. Andrew’s expertise is backed by real-world experience—during his tenure at Microsoft, he played a key role in scaling the infrastructure for Flip (formerly Flipgrid), a video discussion and sharing app built for classrooms and beyo

You know, and then meanwhile, developers are creating new features and modifying the table in place, like with schema evolutions that are kind of rolling out and being deployed and we're a modern DevOps organization, so we run multiple releases per day. So before we can resume the conversation, top analytics or telemetry tools that people should configure, especially if they're thinking about bringing in an expert like you to help deal with the issues that they're having with their application and database performance. Yeah, well, the good thing is that and part of why I think Rails has continued to stay relevant and successful despite being created about 20 years ago is it is in use at high scale organizations like GitHub, Shopify.

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