Tern Stories

<p>Code migration isn’t just a technical task, it’s a minefield.</p><p>In this episode, we dive into a real-world code migration story from Slack that uncovered terrifying truths lurking deep in the system.</p><p>From...

<p>Code migration sounds like a technical task, but it’s a strategic minefield.</p><p>In this episode, we explore how code migration projects fail not because of bugs, but because of broken decision-making and unclear...

<p>Code migration sounds like a technical task, but it’s a strategic minefield.</p><p>In this episode, we explore how code migration projects fail not because of bugs, but because of broken decision-making and unclear...

<p>Code migration doesn’t have to be slow and painful. In this episode, Madeline and I break down a proven method to speed up your code migration process without sacrificing code quality or stability.</p><p>You’ll learn...

<p>Tom Elliott joined Yext in 2015 as an iOS developer. Within a year, both his mobile projects were canceled.</p><p>But Tom's career crisis was nothing compared to what was happening with Yext's infrastructure...

<p>IBM was dropping RethinkDB support. No migration path. No alternatives. Just an end date.</p><p>Andy Monroe's team at LaborChart had five engineers and an entire construction scheduling platform built on a database...

<p>Back in 2011, PagerDuty had a problem that would make any infrastructure engineer wince: they were using MySQL as a queue. </p><p>In this episode, we dive into the fascinating journey of using Cassandra as a queue...

<p>In this episode of Turn Stories, I dive deep into my experiences with Bobby Grayson, the first engineer at Quantierra, a YC-backed startup.</p><p>Bobby shares his journey from the chaos of WeWork to the unique...

<p>In this episode, Cooper Bethea, a senior staff engineer at Slack, shares his journey of transforming Slack's architecture to a cellular model, allowing for more resilient operations.</p><p>Cooper recounts the...

<p>In this episode of Tern Stories, I spoke with Maude Lemaire about a migration that started with SQL and ended with people taking shifts at dawn. </p><p>She joined Slack less than two years out of college, and within...

<p>If you’ve worked on more than one code migration, you already know the punchline: none of them are the same. </p><p>Sure, it sounds like a React 17 → 18 upgrade should follow the same plan for everyone. </p><p>But a...

<p>Alright, picture this. It's March 2020. Everybody just went to work from home. You work at Slack, which is suddenly one of three applications keeping the entire business world connected. And nobody owns Memcache...

<p>In this episode of Turn Stories, I sit down with Anthony Sottile, who led Lyft's migration from Python 2 to 3. They did 150 services in less than six months. But what stood out wasn't just the scale or the timeline...

<p>“If I could wipe out one technology? TCP/IP.” </p><p> That was Mike Jervis’ answer. He was half-joking. Sort of. </p><p>Mike’s a cybersecurity and privacy lawyer at Mullen Coughlin. He works with companies after the...

<p>What does it take to replace the core data store at a company like Datadog? </p><p>That's the question I asked Ian Noland, who led Datadog's migration from Elasticsearch to a new system called Husky. </p><p>In this...