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Postgres FMGadget's use of PostgresNik and Michael are joined by Harry Brundage from Gadget to talk about their recent zero-downtime major version upgrade, how they use Postgres more generally, their dream database, and some challenges of providing Postgres as an abstracted service at scale. Here are some links to things they mentioned:Harry Brundage https://postgres.fm/people/harry-brundageGadget https://gadget.devZero downtime Postgres upgrades using logical replication (blog post) https://gadget.dev/blog/zero-downtime-postgres-upgrades-using-logical-replicationHOT updates https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/storage-hot.htmlPgDog https://pgdog.devMultigres https://multigres.comNeki https://www.neki.devRunning 10 Million PostgreSQL Indexes In Production (Heap b...
2025-09-1952 min
That Tech ShowEpisode 68 - Dealing with Load at Shopify with Harry BrundageToday on the show we have Harry Brundage who has taken his experience in the early years of Shopify seeing it grow from a small Canadian start-up into the go-to e-commerce platform it is today.We talk to him about how to scale an ecommerce platform that serves many many sites, each dealing with it’s own spiky load that can be triggered by viral sensations and how shopify manages to handle all of that.Harry finished up as the Director of Engineering for Shopify, and has now founded his own serverless ecommerce pl...
2022-09-291h 04That Tech ShowEpisode 68 - Dealing with Load at Shopify with Harry BrundageToday on the show we have Harry Brundage who has taken his experience in the early years of Shopify seeing it grow from a small Canadian start-up into the go-to e-commerce platform it is today.We talk to him about how to scale an ecommerce platform that serves many many sites, each dealing with it’s own spiky load that can be triggered by viral sensations and how shopify manages to handle all of that.Harry finished up as the Director of Engineering for Shopify, and has now founded his own serverless ecommerce pl...
2022-09-291h 04
The Remarkable SaaS Podcast#225 - Harry Brundage, CEO at Gadget - on building better software fasterThis podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power to help business app developers make the impossible possible. My guest is Harry Brundage, Co-founder, and CEO at Gadget
Harry is a hard-core developer turned into a tech entrepreneur. He worked at Shopify in numerous capacities, building and scaling Shopify's backend infrastructure, frontend technology stack, big data platform, and engineering organization.
Since leaving Shopify, Harry has built many other systems -- a note-taking tool, an automated vertical farm, a QA tool -- allowing him to gain first-hand experience with how repetitive software development can be. The made him ask t...
2022-08-1050 min
Keep the Flame AliveHarry Blutstein on Mexico City 1968We welcome back TKFLASTANI author Harry Blutstein to talk about his latest book Games of Discontent: Protests, Boycotts, and Politics at the 196 Mexico Olympics. We discuss a few of the protests during these Games - the infamous Tommie Smith/John Carlos podium protest, of course, but also protests by Czechoslovakian gymnast Věra Čáslavská. And yes, there's Avery Brundage talk! Learn more about Harry at his website, and follow him on Twitter and Facebook. Get a copy of the book (it's a great read) from our Bookshop.org storefront. Purchases made through this link will help...
2021-10-081h 12
Whe're They At podcastEpisode XXXIII: Activist and Track & Field great, Dr. John CarlosThe 33rd edition of Whe're They At features Track and Field great and impactful social activist, Dr. John Carlos. Dr. Carlos was the first person in history to win the 100, 200, and 4x100 races in both the NCAA and NAIA Finals (for East Texas State and San Jose State, aka Speed City). He co-founded the Olympic Project for Human Rights with with Dr. Harry Edwards and Dr. Tommie Smith. He won the Bronze Medal in the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City but most importantly, it was him along with Gold Medalist Dr. Smith demonstrating a silent but powerful protest by...
2020-09-011h 58
A pugni chiusiEp. 01 | Per quelli che non possonodi Riccardo GazzanigaAnno 1968. Mentre il mondo, da Roma a Parigi, da Praga a Los Angeles, è scosso dalla contestazione giovanile e dal conflitto tra ribellione e repressione, in Messico ci si prepara all'inagurazione delle XIX Olimpiadi dell'era moderna. A pochi mesi dall'inizio dei giochi, Avery Brundage, discusso presidente del Comitato Olimpico internazionale, deve però affrontare un'inattesa minaccia: quella del boicotaggio degli atleti neri americani, riuniti sotto l'egida del Progetto Olimpico per i Diritti Umani. Un movimento ispirato dal professor Harry Edwards, che può contare sull'attiva partecipazione di alcuni atleti di punta, come i due sprinter Tommie Smith e Joh...
2018-09-0436 min
A pugni chiusiPer quelli che non possonodi Riccardo GazzanigaAnno 1968. Mentre il mondo, da Roma a Parigi, da Praga a Los Angeles, è scosso dalla contestazione giovanile e dal conflitto tra ribellione e repressione, in Messico ci si prepara all'inagurazione delle XIX Olimpiadi dell'era moderna. A pochi mesi dall'inizio dei giochi, Avery Brundage, discusso presidente del Comitato Olimpico internazionale, deve però affrontare un'inattesa minaccia: quella del boicotaggio degli atleti neri americani, riuniti sotto l'egida del Progetto Olimpico per i Diritti Umani. Un movimento ispirato dal professor Harry Edwards, che può contare sull'attiva partecipazione di alcuni atleti di punta, come i due spr...
2018-09-0438 min
Trivial Trivia PodcastTTP53 - Deathly Hallows pt 1 and School LearninMatt Brundage from Another Damn Trivia Show is a guest co-host for episode 53, and quizzes Jeff and Sarah on Stuff you Should Have Learned in School. Plus, we wrack our brains on Harry Potter 7!<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/posterous/vAUD/~4/3sIUi0FqDfg" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>
2014-05-2427 min