“Every opportunity that a company has to celebrate something, no matter how small or large that something is, they really should take advantage of it to lift the morale of the employees.”1 That’s what Matthew Jarzynski, vice president, human resources, Synergy, advises businesses as 2020 works its way into the history books.

If you have ever worked with Shopify, you know it collects data on dozens of ecommerce metrics at any given time. You can track the number of sales, order values, sales by location, and more. The sheer number of key performance indicators (KPIs) and ways to display them can be overwhelming. How do sellers keep their most important metrics from getting lost in the day-to-day shuffle? By building a Shopify dashboard.

[In part I of this blog series we saw an overview of our DBaaS design. In this blog (part II) we discuss the automated MySQL primary failover design in some detail.] We use the hashicorp consul and a custom consul watcher service, along with the orchestrator service, to inject proxySQL route changes in the event of a MySQL primary failure in a shard. Consul cluster

A regular board performance evaluation helps the board improve and execute better governance. Periodic performance evaluations are necessary to pinpoint pain areas that should be looked into to increase the board’s effectiveness and an organization’s compliance purposes. Here is a list of things to consider when designing an effective board performance evaluation.