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FYI’s 100-Bucket Fix Made Its Database Breathe Again
FYI’s growth had trapped its team in a cycle of slow queries, surprise outages and bigger cloud bills. One carefully tested PostgreSQL redesign turned a giant table into manageable pieces—and gave the company permission to think about growth again.
SoundCloud Cut Database Waits 84% With Pythian
From 250 milliseconds to 40: specialist database support helped SoundCloud tackle slow reads. The partnership also addressed a more human bottleneck—engineers waiting for engineering help.
The Layer Between Your Database and the Cloud Bill
Kaminario spent a decade selling flash arrays. Then it threw out the hardware, kept the software, and bet the company on a single idea: that the cloud is fast enough for anything - if you put the right layer in front of it.
SolarWinds
The unglamorous software that keeps 300,000 networks from falling over - and the Austin company that learned to rebuild trust after the most talked-about hack of the decade.