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Ankur Gupta

Scaling Backend 100x
Engineering

Scaling Backend 100x

The post will show how we scaled a lot of our time-consuming background jobs by 100X and more. Obviously, 100X is relative to where we were before. Our previous post covered some of the optimizations we did earlier and how the setup looks like. For sake of brevity, we won’
Aug 10, 2019 15 min read
Postgresql — mysterious bad connections issue post Rails 5.2
Engineering

Postgresql — mysterious bad connections issue post Rails 5.2

The Problem We have a Rails backend and use Postgresql as our OLTP DB. About a month back, we moved to Rails 5.2. Ever since we noticed that our queries to PG in our background jobs will randomly fail. Errors would look like PG::ConnectionBad: PQconsumeInput(). These errors, in
May 1, 2018 3 min read
How we scaled our Rails backend?
Engineering

How we scaled our Rails backend?

In today’s post, I will cover what all we did to optimize to our backend system which is a Ruby on Rails application. Background AdWyze (now Clarisights) uses Ruby on Rails and as a data integration platform and we talk to multiple external sources. In fact, we keep fetching
Sep 26, 2016 3 min read
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