Database

Here at Lucid, we rely on having accurate and timely data accessible to make informed business decisions. As we decide which features to build, how to best position ourselves in the market, and how to better serve our customers, we need to trust that our decisions are based on high-quality…

In the spring of 2018, our data science team at Lucid decided to move our data warehouse from Redshift to Snowflake. We decided to make this change because we felt like Snowflake was a better fit for our data flow and analysis. We knew it would be a significant change…

Real estate is a large industry, and the agents who are a part of it are busy people. At Lucid we built out a solution that helps real estate agents save time when trying to sell properties. We did this by connecting the MLS data stored in sources like RETS…

Lucidchart was built on AWS from day one, so I was very excited for the opportunity to go to Seattle and have Lucidchart featured on the AWS video series, “This is My Architecture.” I talked about our database migration to Amazon Aurora—you can watch the interview below, and for those…

At Lucid, we deal with data—a LOT of it. Ever since we migrated our code to the Play! Framework, we’ve been leveraging the Anorm database access library provided by the framework. Being able to write our own SQL queries gave us a lot more control than using an ORM, and…

For months now, the business team at Lucidchart has been overhearing discussions of “sharding” from the other end of the office. As a curious tech geek, I wanted to know what was going on. I ended up cornering Brian Pugh, VP of Engineering, and Matthew Barlocker, Chief Architect, to interrogate…