Beyond the Code: Stories from the Digital Frontier

February 21, 2025 - Aws System Design

Building a Scalable Event Scheduler for MyDay’s Async Jobs

In today’s fast-paced digital world, businesses often need to schedule and execute tasks asynchronously, such as sending notifications, emails, or processing data at specific times. Building a scalable, reliable, and cost-effective task scheduler presents unique challenges, especially when managing time zones and high event volumes. In this article, I’ll walk you through how we solved […]

January 16, 2025 - Firebase Firestore

Designing Firestore Database Models to Minimize Costs

Designing Firestore Database Models to Minimize Costs When transitioning from relational databases to NoSQL databases like Firebase Firestore, developers often overlook the critical costs associated with reads, writes, and storage. Unlike relational databases, where normalization and foreign key relationships are the norm, Firestore’s cost model necessitates a different approach to data modeling. By understanding Firestore’s […]

Beyond the Code: Stories from the Digital Frontier

Building a Scalable Event Scheduler for MyDay’s Async Jobs

Designing Firestore Database Models to Minimize Costs

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