What do you do when the database is maxed out, the busiest day of your year is six months away, and you still don't know what's actually wrong? Andrew Atkinson joins us to talk through that exact scenario at Aura Frames - the Christmas Day 2024 outage that set it off, and how they made Christmas Day 2025 a success. 

LINKS

- Andrew's Book

- Andrew's Newsletter 

- Scaling Rails at Aura Frames: Splitting to 8 Primary DBs and Reaching #1 in the App Store

- From Christmas Outage to #1 App Store Ranking: An Aura Frames Postgres Scaling Retrospective

- Rails at Scale

- Postgres Summit US

- You can't spell Shard without the word Hard

- Open Positions at Aura Frames

- Ryan's Website

- Brendan's X/Twitter

- Brendan's Bluesky

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