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Infrastructure monitoring with Prometheus at Zerodha
Zerodha

On any given day, we handle around 15% of daily retail trading volume across all stock exchanges in India. Billions of requests generated in the process are handled by a suite of systems we have built in-house. Also, we are very particular on self-hosting as many dependencies as…

Adding custom business logic to Hasura using Dark
Hasura

Hasura has recently implemented a way to create custom mutations called Actions. Want to handle complex business logic? Actions are the way to go! To create a new action, you need to provide a definition, handler (REST endpoint), and specify the kind – sync or async. When you…

Technology Catch-22
PhonePe

Engineering the product on Day 1 to handle hyper-growth in the future Every entrepreneur in the technology space, starts his or her journey with the dream of building a product or providing a solution that addresses a strong need, or solves a fairly pervasive problem using…

Effect of Intel's power management on web servers
Hasura

While benchmarking Hasura, we noticed Hasura performed better when there was more load on the system. In this blog post we cover basics of processor power management & talk about how we see 50% improvement in latencies by tweaking power management settings.

Hello, World!
Zerodha

Zerodha, now India’s largest stock broker, bootstrapped and profitable, turns ten years old this year. The Zerodha tech team turns seven years old. The tech team has remained largely elusive over the course of our existence. While we have pondered starting a tech blog for more…

Five years of GraphQL 🎉
Hasura

2020 will mark five years since GraphQL was released [https://engineering.fb.com/core-data/graphql-a-data-query-language/]! To celebrate, we asked some of the usual suspects 😎 in the community, including Lee Byron, co-creator of GraphQL [https://hasura.io/graphql/], to reflect…

What is Hasura?
Hasura

The Hasura GraphQL Engine is a blazing-fast GraphQL server that gives you instant, realtime GraphQL APIs over Postgres, with webhook…

Zero to 150Mn+ Users in 3 years!
PhonePe

An Overview of Building the PhonePe App The PhonePe app has expanded from 0 to 150M+ in less than 30 months. Our app is growing uniquely in multiple dimensions. It’s not only adding more business-verticals, but every vertical is adding more features, which in turn are getting…