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Discussion on: From 15,000 database connections to under 100: DigitalOcean's tale of tech debt

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Omri Gabay

Cool article but I hate how it reads as an advert for DO.

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ZaneHannanAU

It is, though.

And an article from our sponsor DigitalOcean:

  1. From 15,000 database connections to under 100: DigitalOcean's tale of tech debt: how DigitalOcean scaled infrastructure with their user base.
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Omri Gabay

🤷‍♂️

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Sun-Li Beatteay • Edited

If you mean that this reads like an advertisement to work for DO, then I would agree with that. I think DO is a great place to work, which is I why I still work here and partially what motivated me to write this.

As detailed in the intro:

I hope that telling [this story] will be helpful for future DigitalOcean developers – or any developers who find themselves in a tricky tech-debt conundrum.

If it reads like an advertisement for DO's products and/or services, that's definitely not my intention. I don't include any Call to Action or referral link. Heck, I don't even include a link to DO's own website haha.

Granted, I do talk about one of our products. Though it's a bit tough to write about tech debt without including some of the products that were impacted by it.

In any case, I do hope you're able to get other insights from this post aside from "the author sounds like a DigitalOcean fanboy" haha.

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Sheldon

I took this as a contribution back to communities knowledge and sharing your experience. Personally I did not get any impression of selling. But it did give me an appreciation for digital ocean an engineering team's approach to start decoupling the more monolithic data tier. Really appreciate this!

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Omri Gabay

I was indeed able to do that. Thank you sir!