Zero Downtime Maintenances on MySQL RDS

Achieving zero-downtime during database maintenances has been a challenging goal since the dawn of the databases. However, even today (over 30 years later!) many large and small companies declare downtime for some for their services to perform DB maintenances…

Building the Plan of Record

tl;dr To drive alignment within your organization: stack-rank your priorities, pick the ones you must…

How to Migrate to MySQL RDS Without Downtime

As Amazon Cloud gains more popularity, many companies are looking to migrate their…

Adventures with NPM — Transitioning to Yarn

My experience transitioning Work Market’s front end…

Kafka Connect and Confluent: Modernizing our Data Pipelines and ETL for Microservices

At WorkMarket, like many other growth-stage startups, we’re in the midst of a transition from a monolithic architecture to a microservices architecture.

Creating a Diversity and Inclusion Group From the Ground up: A Step-By-Step Guide

93% of engineers are…

Here’s Why You Should Attend Next Year’s Grace Hopper Celebration

Rotating RDS SSL Certificates Without Downtime

The challenge

If you are working at one of the many lucky companies that are using RDS databases on AWS, you should be more than familiar with the following email subject from AWS “Update Your Amazon RDS SSL/TLS…

Celebrating One Year Since ADP Acquisition of WorkMarket