Scaling SQLite to 4M QPS on a single server (EC2 vs Bare Metal)
Expensify has an unusual technology stack in many ways. But most surprising of all is that we don't use MySQL or Postgres — instead using none other than SQLite — and it works great.
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[Q&A] How Expensify helped a bookkeeping newbie manage his company's expenses
Hubdoc handed the bookkeeping reins to a novice: Senior Product Marketing Manager, Geoff Gualano. He was tasked with learning his way through the company’s bookkeeping tools (including Expensify) and using his fresh perspective to uncover workflow inefficiencies.
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[CEO Friday] Please Don’t Call Us “Cockroaches”
I won’t lie: it’s flattering and vindicating for the low-burn, efficient-growth strategies we’ve been championing for years to come into vogue. But “cockroach”? Seriously?!
The simplest SQLite common table expression tutorial
I've been trying to wrap my head around Common Table Expressions for a while, and all the tutorials I've read started out with "simple" examples that were way too advanced for me to follow. Here's my attempt to write a tutorial that starts as simple as possible.
Expense management with the most radical shorts company in the world: Chubbies
What do you do when you love something so much and want to change the current industry standard?
You start a company (obviously).
For us, we had a vision to rid the world of expense reports that suck. For the guys at Chubbies Shorts, they envisioned an alternative, retro glam lifestyle from decades past. Two completely different businesses in every single way, but both ideas were born from a desire to change the status quo.
CEO Friday: Startup management as a P2P Network
At some point, a startup outgrows its lack of structure, but isn’t yet ready for the real deal. What do you do? There are some lessons to be drawn from how P2P networks grappled with the same problem.
CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire .NET programmers
As you might know, we're hiring the best programmers in the world. Read this article to learn why we don’t hire .NET programers.
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