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Akshay Suryavanshi

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A order on @SaltandSundry just tipped Shopify over the 1 trillion(!) in cumulative GMV. Monumental milestone for us. A beautiful small business run by Amanda McClemens in DC. Couldn't have been a better example of what makes Shopify special: shopsaltandsundry.com/pages/about


Go for 700 @ashwinravi99 da. Great achievement today!


No trip is complete without flight delays from #aircanada. This time the reason is only one ground staff handling all the checked-in luggage, and they want you to volunteer for checked-in luggage. #AC8005.


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Days after a quarterfinals loss in the 2010 French Open, Novak Djokovic told his coach, Marián Vajda, that he had decided to quit playing tennis. He was No. 3 in the world, a grand slam winner, and a favorite to win Wimbledon. After Djokovic said he was quitting, Vajda asked,…

bpoppenheimer's tweet image. Days after a quarterfinals loss in the 2010 French Open, Novak Djokovic told his coach, Marián Vajda, that he had decided to quit playing tennis.

He was No. 3 in the world, a grand slam winner, and a favorite to win Wimbledon. 

After Djokovic said he was quitting, Vajda asked,…

Fuck yeah! 🙏🏻

🚢 Helping us stay on top of the traffic over BFCM, our MySQL fleet performed over 14 Million queries per second (QPS) at peak, averaging over 8.5 Million QPS throughout BFCM.



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I've seen a lot of people asking "why does everyone think Twitter is doomed?" As an SRE and sysadmin with 10+ years of industry experience, I wanted to write up a few scenarios that are real threats to the integrity of the bird site over the coming weeks.


Ohh, so I was not the only one! If people had boarded the plane as per their zones, I would have had my luggage safely with me. But Air Canada insisted that I should lose my luggage. businessinsider.com/air-canada-los…


Save yourself of any misery and avoid Air travel at any cost. Its horrible out there, had cancellations + delays each leg of the trip and also lost luggage.


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Every year for BFCM we undergo a process of replacing thousands of 32-core VMs with even more 64-core VMs — then reverse just two weeks later. This year, with a tool called Mason, it’s just a matter of merging a PR. Want to hear a little more about this? 🧵👇


Upgrading software is tough, especially petabyte scale database systems. This blogpost highlights Shopify’s Database Platform’s thoughtful approach to upgrading MySQL at scale, with fool-proof rollback plan. shopify.engineering/upgrading-mysq… via @Shopify


With a super awesome tech lead like @jeremycole such problems are so much enjoyabe and possible to resolve

🚢 Helping us stay on top of the traffic over BFCM, our MySQL fleet performed over 14 Million queries per second (QPS) at peak, averaging over 8.5 Million QPS throughout BFCM.



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Enterprise software is such a strange category because everyone involved is miserable. Companies hate buying it and vendors hate selling it and engineers hate writing it and users hate using it and yet there it is, a huge chunk of the software economy.


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Fun Fact: If you’ve ordered any #PerconaLive Online 2021 conference merchandise, then it was fulfilled from a #database some of which are hosted in #KateSQL


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Here are the slides from my talk @SREcon in Dublin today about preparing SRE teams for novel failures. #SRECon speakerdeck.com/jarthorn/expec…


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In our latest post, @akshay_mysql shares how his team drastically reduced Recovery Time Objective (RTO) to under 30 minutes by redesigning our tooling to use disk-based snapshots for our MySQL servers. engineering.shopify.com/blogs/engineer…


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PerconaBytes's tweet image. Our speakers are from @SlackHQ, @Shopify @ShopifyEng and @svetsmirnova @Percona .  Thank you. #percona #perconalive #pleteam

Worst shopping experience @shoppersstop has started a fraud campaign with their membership card. Viviana mall, Thane


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Lotus lets both cars out together they almost hit each other, then trundle down the pit lane side by side #CanadianGP

AnishQuest's tweet image. Lotus lets both cars out together they almost hit each other, then trundle down the pit lane side by side #CanadianGP

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