Ditch Postgres LIKE queries for a Redis-backed trie to supercharge @mentions. In this talk, you'll learn how we moved @mentions off Postgres into Redis, built a prefix tree for typeahead completion, and cut latency by 80% under heavy load.
I'm a Principal Software Engineer at Skool, where I work on Go backend services that help Skool users build and find their online community. Previously, I've worked on platform teams at ID.me, CrowdStrike, and AWS, delivering high-availability services at scale for cloud-native platforms.