Engineering Insights

Increase IOPS and throughput with sharding

When sizing resources for a database, we often focus on specs like vCPUs, RAM, and storage capacity.However, IOPS and throughput are crucial considerations for I/O intensive workloads like databases. In this article, we'll look at how the IOPS and throughput requirements of a database affect cost and how sharding can help reduce this cost for large-scale workloads. Before we jump into these details, let's first define what we mean by IOPS and throughput. Since this article was written, we have r

Disrupting a covert Iranian influence operation

Upcoming requirements for app distribution in the European Union

As a reminder, Account Holders or Admins in the Apple Developer Program need to enter trader status in App Store Connect for apps on the App Store in the European Union (EU) in order to comply with the Digital Services Act. Please note these new dates and requirements: October 16, 2024: Trader status will be required to submit app updates. If you’re a trader, you’ll need to provide your trader information before you can submit your app for review. February 17, 2025: Apps without trader status

Using the AI SDK to fix edge-case errors in our code

Recently, there was an issue affecting our customers when trying to purchase a domain containing non-English characters. This problem became apparent when these domain purchases consistently failed, creating a significant roadblock for users wanting to expand their online presence with internationalized domain names (IDNs). Read more

Delivering contextual job matching for millions with OpenAI

Indeed, whose mission is to help people get jobs, is the world’s #1 job site. Over 350 million unique visitors come to Indeed every month to connect with more than 3.5 million employers and over 32 million jobs. But what’s more is that every three seconds someone gets hired on Indeed.

Awakening Sleeping Beauties at The Met

AI can enrich lives through beauty and creativity, and its artistic potential shines in "Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion," a collaborative exhibit from The Met's Costume Institute.

A failed experiment: Infini-Attention, and why we should keep trying?

Tracking index usage with Insights

For relational databases, creating and maintaining the right indexes for your workload is critical to ensuring good performance. Unfortunately, creating good indexes isn’t a one-time activity performed only when adding new tables. Tables grow, schemas evolve, and, most importantly, the queries sent by your application change over time. To ensure your application’s queries are indexed correctly, it’s important to be able to observe which indexes are (or are not) actually being used. To help with