Tess Rinearson

Software Engineer at Chain

About

Tess Rinearson is a software engineer at Chain, where she works on Chain Core, an open source, enterprise-grade blockchain.

Previously, Tess was a full-stack engineer at Medium. At Medium, she helped build the social graph service and other infrastructure.

In 2014, Tess was named one of the “100 Most Influential Tech Women on Twitter” by Business Insider. She studied computer science at the University of Pennsylvania and Carnegie Mellon University.

Tess Rinearson has presented the following presentations

    Tess Rinearson High-Availability Postgres with etcd at PGConf US 2017 [PgConf.US]

    presented by Tess Rinearson


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    Chain’s enterprise blockchain networks use Postgres for storage. We rely on Postgres’s replication features to ensure that clients can always access their assets and create transactions, and wrote a service that manages Postgres replicas. This service was heavily inspired by Joyent’s Manatee project, but uses different technology; namely, Go and etcd instead of Node and Zookeeper. In this talk,...

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