Jean-Mark Wright

@jaywhy13

Software eng, currently passionate about building sustainable architectures and driving observability

Toronto, CAJoined April 2022

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Jean-Mark is an articulate, customer-focused, visionary with extensive industry experience encompassing front and back end development in all phases of software development. He lives "outside the box" in pursuit of architectural elegance and relevant, tangible solutions. He is a strong believer that team empowerment fosters genius and is versed at working solo.

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JWJean-Mark Wrightjaywhy13.hashnode.devDec 23, 2025 · 8 min read

Instrumenting at 10 years per second

Introduction I've found a new love - custom instrumentation, and I can’t keep it to myself. We manually increased the custom instrumentation in one of our newer services and loved the impact. The instrumentation accelerated forensic investigations, r...

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JWJean-Mark Wrightjaywhy13.hashnode.devFeb 17, 2025 · 8 min read

On shipping smaller PRs

Introduction In my last I talked about the importance of shipping smaller PRs. In this article I’ll give some practical examples for how PRs can be split into smaller chunks. The examples aren’t organized into specific themes. Rather they’re arbitrar...

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JWJean-Mark Wrightjaywhy13.hashnode.devDec 25, 2024 · 5 min read

Small PRs ship faster - QED

Introduction Welcome to my very scientific paper where I propose that small PRs ship faster than big ones. I will construct my hypothesis with carefully crafted examples, concrete evidence and lots of words and sentences in general. I guarantee there...

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JWJean-Mark Wrightjaywhy13.hashnode.devOct 17, 2024 · 6 min read

Order matters - making a compound index 50x faster

Introduction Today I’ll talk about an endpoint that initially performed under 30ms, then crept up to ~500ms after a couple months. Our investigation revealed that a query, powered by a compound index was responsible for the elevated latency. We explo...

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JWJean-Mark Wrightjaywhy13.hashnode.devSep 12, 2024 · 8 min read

Dear Editor: We need better Database Observability

Introduction Dear Editor, hear my plea. I pen this piece in earnest search of enlightenment, or the beginnings of a well needed change; we need better database observability! Specifically, more granular, and useful database spans. Coarse, high-level ...

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Instrumenting at 10 years per second

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Order matters - making a compound index 50x faster

Dear Editor: We need better Database Observability

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Jean-Mark Wright's blogs

Recently published

Instrumenting at 10 years per second

On shipping smaller PRs

Small PRs ship faster - QED

Order matters - making a compound index 50x faster

Dear Editor: We need better Database Observability