Samuel
@samuel.fm
the snake story lives up to all my expectations
![As a reminder, the team was still tiny when all these scaling challenges emerged. There were only 6 developers (Daniel, Devin, Bryan and Jake on the backend, and Paul and Ansh on the frontend). Then in summer 2023, Daniel had a dream:
“After one stressful day, I dreamt that me, Jay [Bluesky’s CEO], and Devin were in my backyard. There were snakes everywhere you looked. We were going to wrangle and round up the snakes in a panic. But that that point, Devin stops and says to all of us: ‘wait, wait, guys, I think there’s a Postgres extension for this!’”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:p2cp5gopk7mgjegy6wadk3ep/bafkreigkhjpgait3iljzpsad3uronwonhad7o5e63ycdlst2j6uolu4ame "As a reminder, the team was still tiny when all these scaling challenges emerged. There were only 6 developers (Daniel, Devin, Bryan and Jake on the backend, and Paul and Ansh on the frontend). Then in summer 2023, Daniel had a dream:
“After one stressful day, I dreamt that me, Jay [Bluesky’s CEO], and Devin were in my backyard. There were snakes everywhere you looked. We were going to wrangle and round up the snakes in a panic. But that that point, Devin stops and says to all of us: ‘wait, wait, guys, I think there’s a Postgres extension for this!’”")
Gergely Orosz@gergely.pragmaticengineer.com· 23 Apr 2024Ever wondered how Bluesky was built?
With @hejelin.bsky.social , we spent the last couple of weeks talking with @pfrazee.com, @dholms.xyz (two "founding" engineers) to get a sense of how this platform went from zero to where it is today.
Read it here: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/bluesky
