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Scaling Slack and GitHub with Maude Lemaire

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In this Pragmatic Engineer episode, host Gergely Orosz talks with principal engineer Maude Lemaire, who spent nearly eight years scaling Slack's backend and later worked on database scaling at GitHub and performance at Cursor.

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