Talk video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu-cf-Jki60
From the beginning, GoCardless has used Postgres for the stuff that matters. It’s the primary store behind our APIs and dashboards.
After 5 years, it’s fair to say we’ve seen some things. From spikes in latency as resources run out, through the weird contortions ORMs put your database through, and on to the perils of running a high-availability cluster - this talk has it all.
In the talk, we’ll run through some war stories from the last two years at GoCardless. By gathering them together, we’ll spot some recurring themes, and hopefully avoid fighting the same battles again!