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Date Published
Author
Adam Inoue
Word count
2197
Language
English
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None

Summary

This installment of the "Community Member Spotlight" series highlights Adam Inoue, a software engineer at Messari, who shares his experience with using TimescaleDB to bring transparency to the cryptoeconomy. Messari is a data analytics and research company that provides an organized and contextualized view of the crypto market, enabling professionals to make informed decisions. Adam's team uses TimescaleDB to power their real-time views, handling massive amounts of data from various sources, including on-chain integrations with The Graph. The transition to TimescaleDB improved performance, scalability, and developer experience, allowing the team to easily manage hypertables, compression policies, and continuous aggregates. With its pure PostgreSQL interface and impressive performance characteristics, TimescaleDB has become a crucial part of Messari's infrastructure, enabling them to derive new metrics from multiple existing datasets and scale with ease.