Seesaw Learning provides a leading online student learning platform used by more than 10 million K-12 teachers, students and family members in the U.S. every month. When COVID-19 hit in early 2020 and forced schools to abruptly switch to full-time remote learning, the need for Seesaw’s platform skyrocketed. The number of student posts on its app increased tenfold and the paid customer base tripled. The app is now used by three-quarters o...

SQL has been around for a while. Since 1974, to be exact. SQL databases have long dominated the data landscape but faced a stiff challenge from NoSQL alternatives in the 2010s. Back then, the knock on SQL databases was that they would not be able to cope with the speed, scale and (lack of) structure associated with the ever-growing streams of data that needed to be processed. Fast forward to 2021, and many concepts motivated by the NoSQL movem...