Andrew Wang retweeted
I'll be sharing our new VEMPIC fluid simulator at SIGGRAPH 2022! Learn how the Virtual Element Method, Cut-Cell Meshes, and Particle-in-Cell fluid simulation naturally complement one another!
Project: dgp.toronto.edu/projects/vem…
Video: youtu.be/V8Hlt66qrys
I blogged about our work upgrading Airtable's MySQL infrastructure from 5.6 to 8.0. This project was truly a saga, and I'm proud of what we accomplished: medium.com/airtable-eng/migr…
To make the upgrade successful, we built major new pieces of MySQL infrastructure: an improved failover process, record/replay testing, a downgrade capability, and lots of additional observability and instrumentation.
1
2
Of course, this is only the beginning! We're working on more projects to improve the scalability and reliability of our database infrastructure. If you're interested, the Storage team is hiring: boards.greenhouse.io/airtabl… (SWE) boards.greenhouse.io/airtabl… (DRE)
What comes after a strawman solution? Woodman? Ironman? Can we define a solution strength continuum?
Very cool that our 1M LOC TS migration at @airtable inspired an even larger 3.5M LOC TS migration at @stripe! Congrats to the team at Stripe for pulling this off.
We were heavily inspired by @calebmer and @umbrant's migration at Airtable medium.com/airtable-eng/the-…
We used their codemod as the basis for the migration.
Has anyone measured the availability of us-east-1 vs. other AWS regions? I have a hypothesis that it's significant (like 99.9% vs. 99.99% uptime), making *not* being based in us-east-1 a competitive advantage for startups.
Andrew Wang retweeted
Excited and honored to be speaking at Have You Tried Rubbing a Database on It? I'll talk about why @airtable is easy to learn and hard to outgrow. Tickets here: hytradboi.com @hytradboi
Kudos to @monitorio for a simple product that just works. I needed failure notifications for some cronjobs running on my rPi, and with Cronitor, I was up and running in 15 minutes. Love it!
We like to ship. Incredible work by the Interface Designer team @airtable!
📢 Today we're thrilled to announce Interface Designer: Our new offering to create complete and customized applications with Airtable.
Get the details here 👉 blog.airtable.com/introducin… and watch this space for more info and resources to come!
2
This thread is exactly the value proposition of @airtable. You want a low-code application platform, not a spreadsheet.
“$SAAS could be replaced with a spreadsheet” is something I have seen a few times. I think it misunderstands how users use software, how businesses run processes, and how SaaS products are built.
2
What's the right way of handling timestamps for client-side events? Right now we only use server-side timestamps since client clocks are famously bad, but it means we lose the ordering of some events in the system.
1
I gave a talk at @anyscalecompute about a topic near and dear to my heart: software testing, and how a good test suite is a developer's best friend. Thanks @oldcap for hosting me!
slideshare.net/AndrewWang41/…
1
14
The continual evolution of Airtable's codebase: Migrating a million lines of code to TypeScript. Written by myself and @calebmer!
medium.com/airtable-eng/the-…
We're showing real snippets from Airtable's codebase for the first time, and also open-sourcing the codemod that Caleb wrote to perform the automatic transformations! github.com/Airtable/typescri…
1
5