Posts authored by Akash Askoolum:


Wednesday, 4 December 2019

The Tools Game, building empathy with our journalists
Akash Askoolum

Learn how we dogfooded our digital tools as a learning exercise and as a way to gain a deeper understanding of how our journalists use our tooling

People playing games

Friday, 30 November 2018

Bye bye Mongo, Hello Postgres
Philip McMahon, Maria-Livia Chiorean, Susie Coleman, Akash Askoolum

In April the Guardian switched off the Mongo DB cluster used to store our content after completing a migration to PostgreSQL on Amazon RDS. This post covers why and how

AWS   PostgreSQL  

An elephant picking up some greenery