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Max Tagher

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Max Tagher

@MaxTagher

Co-Founder/CTO @mercury; check it out at demo.mercury.com 🐀

New York City

Joined July 2012

Max Tagher
@MaxTagher
Jun 28, 2024
1/ The @Mercury team’s #1 priority has been mitigating the impacts of the recent cybersecurity incident on one of our partner banks (we emailed potentially impacted customers on Wednesday). Some customers have asked whether leaked account numbers could be used to steal money from
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Max Tagher
@MaxTagher
May 23, 2022
Documenting database schemas is really important. Here's how @mercury does it: 1. Docs on every table in our ORM's file format 2. Collate those into a giant markdown file for non-eng 3. Video series going over the major tables, w/ exercises
Max Tagher
@MaxTagher
Nov 23, 2022
In a Little Bobby Tables moment, @mercury has a customer with the legal name DROP TABLE Labs, LLC. We were sending their company name to a partner, and they rejected the HTTP request with "SQL-Injection Threat detected in Payload". (Relevant xkcd: xkcd.com/327)
xkcd.com
Exploits of a Mom
Max Tagher
@MaxTagher
Aug 9, 2024
I wrote a blog post on how to document a database schema, based on my experience @mercury mercury.com/blog/documenti… Quality schema docs are a great investment for an engineering team—database tables are probably the core data structures of your app, and the docs enable data
Documenting your database schema | Mercury
From mercury.com
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Max Tagher
@MaxTagher
Sep 29, 2023
At @mercury we have 1000+ tables and 150+ engineers. At that scale you need automated linting to maintain a sensible SQL schema, which is crucial in a domain like finance. Here are my top 8 lints to consider, and the SQL that drives them:
Mercury
@mercury
Sep 29, 2023
Replying to @mercury and @MaxTagher
8 Lints for your Postgres schema by Max Tagher blog-next.mercury.com/blog/lints-for…
8 Lints for your Postgres schema | Mercury
From mercury.com
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Max Tagher
@MaxTagher
Jun 2, 2023
My coworker cut our backend test suite time in half, by using triggers to track which tables needed to be wiped between tests, vs wiping all of them. Obvious in retrospect, but I haven’t seen this done before and it’s a huge win.
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Max Tagher
@MaxTagher
Apr 17, 2024
Releasing @mercury for personal use today! The product is almost exactly what we offer for businesses, and the whole product can be tried at demo.mercury.com/?orgKind=perso… (This is a paid product but nets to free if you keep $5000 in your savings account, at current rates)
Mercury
@mercury
Apr 17, 2024
It's here. Join the waitlist: mercury.com/personal-banki…
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Mercury | Banking for Startups
From demo.mercury.com
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Max Tagher
@MaxTagher
Apr 17, 2019
Today my co-founders and I are launching Mercury, a new bank for any US business. We've been developing it for a year and a half, and I think we've created a really exceptional product. Check it out at mercury.co!
Max Tagher
@MaxTagher
Sep 27, 2023
Replying to @Aella_Girl and @sashachapin
That time my dick didn't work
From sashachapin.substack.com
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Max Tagher
@MaxTagher
Oct 2, 2020
Replying to @Aella_Girl
Executive assistant probably? At a larger company, could be a "chief of staff" (emphasis on like special projects) or operations manager This title is tricky b/c you want a very competent person doing it, and the title needs to reflect that they are far more than a secretary
Max Tagher
@MaxTagher
Jul 4, 2019
Replying to @Aella_Girl
Just spitballing, but maybe part of it is that fair-skinned people are living in places they didn’t evolve to be suited for?
Max Tagher
@MaxTagher
Jan 24, 2024
Replying to @Aella_Girl and @azmythalauris
I have drank the milk which was lumpy and which you were probably going to waste I’m sorry it was delicious so hippie and so cold
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Max Tagher
@MaxTagher
Sep 14, 2019
Replying to @webdevMason
And here it is from my perspective
Max Tagher
@MaxTagher
Sep 4, 2021
Replying to @paulg
Are you worried about concussions?