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In software development, code review is an essential step that ensures the quality and readability of the codebase. To improve the code review process, the frontend platform team at Adjust explored the possibility of using ChatGPT as a pull request (PR) review assistant and built a proof of concept. This article will discuss the idea, exploration, implementation, and challenges of using ChatGPT within our ecosystem. Image from Unsplash 💡Idea As a Frontend platform team, constantly improving our internal teams’ development process and experience is one of our goals....

Design Systems have become an essential part of modern web and app design, offering a unified approach to design and user experience. ATLAS is the Design System of Adjust. At the core of a well-structured Design System are reusable components, design-tokens, patterns and much more that not only enhance efficiency but also ensure consistency throughout a project. Our aim is to create a design system that can be used seamlessly across multiple teams and multiple Adjust products....

In the realm of security management, there’s a compelling maxim that echoes loudly: “Keep doing it wrong until you do it right.” Though it may seem paradoxical at a glance, the embrace of errors and the subsequent learning from them are key to fortifying organizational security. This article delves into why the philosophy of perpetual improvement, learning through failure, and relentless pursuit of excellence is a cornerstone in security management....

For this month’s PGSQL Phriday blogging challenge, Tomasz Gintowt asks if people rather use partitioning or sharding to solve business problems. Big Data: Partitioning vs Sharding Adjust Here at Adjust we use both. We also have quite a few databases of all sizes. Let’s look at some examples. We leverage four primary database systems, termed as “Backends”, “Shards”, “Bagger” and “Tracker”. The Backend systems function as intermediate storage of data, anything between hours and weeks....

At Adjust, we rely on Pendo for gaining valuable insights into our users’ interactions with our products. Additionally, we utilize Sentry to proactively monitor and manage any potential runtime issues that our users might encounter. One day, our team noticed a surge in error events being reported in Sentry. The issue was cryptically labeled as [Failed to add click event property], and it was occurring at an alarming rate, with hundreds of occurrences per hour....

The City of Berlin participated in Stadtradeln 2023, also called City Cycling. The Adjust Team joined, along with 1266 other teams. Stadtradeln 2023 What is Stadtradeln? According to the website: CITY CYCLING is a competition that involves completing as many daily journeys as possible in an environmentally-friendly manner using your bike over a 21-day period. Whether you ride every day or cycled only rarely until now. Every kilometre counts – and even more so if you would have completed the journey by car otherwise....

We are happy to announce that Adjust is hosting an Aerospike Meetup on June 7th, 2023, in the Berlin office. Please head over to the Meetup website for details. The event starts at 18:30, and we have two speakers: Belhassen Dahmen (Adjust, Platform Engineer): The importance of a high performance scalable databases in a throughput intensive environment (Slides) Behrad Babaee (Aerospike): Scaling Aerospike: Lessons for Data-Intensive Application Developers (Slides) Please note that the event has a limit of 40 participants, and you must register using the Meetup website....

Introduction PostgreSQL has a process-based architecture. A single running PostgreSQL instance contains several types of processes: a single postgres server process, a backend process per each client connection and various maintenance background processes. During the development of an extension it is often necessary to debug a backend process using gdb (or a different debugger). Along with debugging logs it helps to understand how to work with the extension API since it is often not clear and the PostgreSQL documentation might not be enough....

We are happy to announce that Adjust is hosting a PostgreSQL Meetup on May 11th, 2023, in the Berlin office. Please head over to the Meetup website for details. The event starts at 19:00, and we have two speakers: Elena Grahovac from FerretDB, will talk about: “Building an open-source MongoDB-compatible database on top of PostgreSQL” (Slides) Divyendu Singh will talk about “PLV8ify - TypeScript to PostgreSQL Functions” (Slides) Please note that the event has a limit of 30 participants, and you must register using the Meetup website....

The task at hand was easy. Platform Engineering (PE) wants to re-create the filesystem for a NVram drive which holds a database. The database itself is around 9TB, but the size is nothing unusual for us. Plus we have procedures to take this database out of production for a prolonged period. All good. Or so I thought. First confirm that the database is no longer in production. Confirmed. Shut it down....