Posts authored by Maria-Livia Chiorean:


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

Tuesday, 1 May 2018

Our Digital Fellows share their experiences of the scheme
Maria-Livia Chiorean, Susie Coleman, Calum Campbell, Jonathan Rankin

As we launch our scheme for 2018, four former participants describe how it kickstarted their careers in software development

Computing   Digital Fellowship Scheme   Software  


Wednesday, 7 December 2016

The Digital Fellows: A New Hope
Emma Milner, Jonathan Rankin, Anne Byrne, Maria-Livia Chiorean, Susie Coleman, Calum Campbell, Kate Whalen

It is a dark time for the free press. Our only hope, the Fellows, strive to master the force, guided by the expert developers of Guardian Digital. As a new cohort approaches, we reflect on what we have learnt on the Fellowship Scheme

Computing   Digital Fellowship Scheme   Digital media   Programming  

Star Wars filming - JJ McGettigan from the Emerald Garrison, a star Wars costuming club, in Malin Head, Co Donegal Ireland, as filming for the next Star Wars movie will take place there.

Monday, 11 April 2016

The Guardian Digital Fellowship: six months in
Maria-Livia Chiorean, Susie Coleman, Emma Milner, Jonathan Rankin

September saw the next group of fellows join the Guardian Digital Fellowship Programme. This year’s cohort share their thoughts on the job, the Guardian, logistics and the extras.

Computing   Digital Fellowship Scheme   Programming   Work & careers  

The digital fellows, keen to learn.

Friday, 8 April 2016

Building Bonobo, the Guardian's open source API key management tool
Maria-Livia Chiorean

Here’s the story of how we built our own open source API key management tool and of how we made the new starters grow

Programming  

Credit: Photo by Anup Shah and Fiona Rogers / Rex