Geocodio

All the @geocod.io dev blog posts are bangers so far. What's great is that they read almost like internal documentation. Wish more companies would talk about their tech processes this publicly and in this tone.

Not to brag, but our new Code and Coordinates blog is on fire lately. The latest post is on our efforts to prevent abusive sign-ups... they've evolved a lot over the years!

How We're Keeping Our Free Tier Sustainable by Preventing Abuse - Geocodio A free tier allows people to try a SaaS without paying first, but it opens up the service to bad actors. Here's how we balance preventing bad actors while still supporting legitimate users.

A free tier allows people to try a SaaS without paying first, but it opens up the service to bad actors. Here's how we balance preventing bad actors while still supporting legitimate users. www.geocod.io/code-and-coo...

Supercharging Laravel with Go: Building a Hybrid Architecture - Geocodio Learn how we leveraged Go alongside Laravel using Unix socket RPC communication to handle performance-critical operations and protect proprietary algorithms through compiled binaries.

While PHP is fantastic for building feature-rich applications, Go can be a better choice for heavy lifting.

For Geocodio, that heavy lifting entails serving billions of requests, as we're averaging 17B requests every 30 days.

(by @tjmiller.bsky.social)

www.geocod.io/code-and-coo...

How Geocodio keeps 300M addresses up to date - Geocodio Working with address data requires continual updates. Our in-house ETL, built on Laravel and SQLite, helps us expand our address point data on a daily basis.

Working with over 300M addresses requires continual updates. Our in-house ETL, built on Laravel and SQLite, helps us expand our address point data on a daily basis. (by @codemonkey.io) www.geocod.io/code-and-coo...