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Matthew Knox

Senior Software Engineer

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Caching JQL search in Jira Cloud

Jira Cloud poses some unique database scaling challenges, due to high query complexity causing high database load and slow queries. Queries run against the database are often highly repetitive and on the surface very cachable, but are not currently being cached. Horizontal scaling is the main technique being applied to services within Jira Cloud to […]