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Zero-downtime database migrations at Nimbus

The expand-and-contract pattern that lets us reshape the schema without ever taking the app offline.

Where the milliseconds were hiding, and the profiling workflow we used to claw them back.

A deep dive into the indexing and ranking changes that took search from sluggish to instant.

How presence, live cursors, and instant updates work under the hood in the Nimbus editor.

Partitioning, careful indexes, and a few hard-won lessons about keeping queries fast at scale.