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CanvaCompany

Online design and visual communication platform.

5 things

Amazon DynamoDBService

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To meet the increasing scalability needs, we first moved the raw usage events in the collection stage, over to DynamoDB.

Canva moving raw usage events to DynamoDB

canva.dev ↗·2024-04-12Wrong?

MySQLSoftware

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We started with the tech stack we were most familiar with, MySQL, and built major components separately using worker services.

Canva on starting its content usage counting service on MySQL before moving to DynamoDB and OLAP

canva.dev ↗·2024-04-12Wrong?

TypeScriptSoftware Microsoft

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We switched out Javascript for Typescript with React, introduced Kotlin and Swift for our mobile apps, and added others for specifically selected purposes, such as Scala for our data science and machine learning team.

Canva on how its stack moved from Java and JavaScript to TypeScript, Kotlin and Scala

canva.dev ↗·2018-10-05Wrong?

KotlinSoftware

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We switched out Javascript for Typescript with React, introduced Kotlin and Swift for our mobile apps, and added others for specifically selected purposes, such as Scala for our data science and machine learning team.

Canva on introducing Kotlin for its mobile apps

canva.dev ↗·2018-10-05Wrong?

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