APX: The Continuous Reliability Platform

Implement Continuous Reliability for your system with APX's AI agents that monitor 24/7/365, detect issues, and push fixes and recommendations to boost performance, eliminate outages, and improve cost-efficiency.

Integrates with Datadog, GitHub, and Postgres.
StepChange APX can transform how we manage performance and scalability at our high-growth company. It's like having an expert DBA/performance engineer on call 24/7—highly recommended for any team looking to streamline performance management.
Jon Wall
Jon Wall
Founder, Runloop AI
As an early stage startup with a lean engineering team, StepChange has been invaluable for us. I sleep like a baby knowing StepChange is watching over us and we are excited for the ways APX will continue to improve the reliability of our systems.
Kyle Noble
Kyle Noble
Co-Founder, Atlas
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APX integrates with Datadog, Sentry, Postgres, and GitHub to detect and resolve issues, optimize performance, and prevent regressions—keeping your applications fast, reliable, and production-ready.

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Cutting-edge performance, reliability, and data engineering.

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Migrating Coinbase's 56 Million Users to React Native: Key Lessons and Takeaways

Harry Tormey · Jul 15, 2024

Are you thinking about migrating a Native mobile app to React Native or building one from scratch? Are you interested in hearing lessons learned from migrating Coinbase's 56 million users from Native to React Native? Nick Cherry, an Expert React Native developer and former Software Engineer at Coinbase, discusses his experience with React Native performance at Coinbase and his role in porting their Native mobile apps to React Native. He is interviewed by Harry Tormey, CTO of StepChange, who al

Scaling Clubhouse From 10K to 10 Million Users In 6 Months With Postgres

Harry Tormey · May 16, 2024

Do you have a Django app built on Postgres? Want to know how to scale it to 10 million users using AWS Aurora? Luke Demi, is an expert software engineer who helped scale Clubhouse’s backend infrastructure from 10 thousand users to 10 million users in 6 months. In this video, he shares his experience migrating Clubhouse from Heroku to AWS and Aurora Postgres. Prior to working at Clubhouse Luke was a staff software engineer at Doordash and Coinbase, where he also worked on very hard scaling proble

Postgres and GIS at Nextdoor: Engineering for Scale

Harry Tormey · May 22, 2024

Do you have a Django app built on Postgres that needs to use geospatial data? Want to know how to scale it to millions of users using Postgres?  In this article, I interview Ananth Chandrasekharan about the challenges Nextdoor faced while scaling its Django application, which made heavy use of geospatial data, and how they successfully overcame these challenges. Ananth is seasoned engineering leader with decades of experience working at top tech companies such as Coinbase, Nextdoor and Rippling.

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Experience automated fixes firsthand: Sign up and try APX today

Harry Tormey · Apr 7, 2025

APX is a platform that deploys targeted AI agents to continuously monitor your production infrastructure. Think of it as a team of specialized engineers watching your systems 24/7, proactively detecting and fixing issues before they impact users.  Our AI agents integrate with GitHub, Datadog, Sentry, and Postgres to identify problems and either push fixes directly or deliver high-impact recommendations.  The Datadog cost agent cuts observability costs by spotting high-cardinality logging and m

How APX’s Sentry agent finds and fixes N+1 queries in a Django app

Harry Tormey · Apr 7, 2025

APX is an AI agents platform that monitors production infrastructure using your existing tooling to detect performance issues, and suggest targeted fixes. Our AI agents integrate with GitHub, Datadog, Sentry, and Postgres to identify problems and either push fixes directly or deliver high-impact recommendations. They work like a team of engineers on-call 24/7 to reduce your observability costs, fix production errors, and eliminate database bottlenecks. Previously, I showed how the APX Sentry a

Cut Datadog Logs Cost With APX and Cursor

Niall OHiggins · Mar 22, 2025

Datadog cost surprises are more common than you'd think. I’ve written about how Datadog’s defaults can quietly spiral out of control, like when a GKE Autopilot user saw their Datadog bill increase 20x due to unexpected Prometheus scraping. The root cause? Overlapping defaults that not even Datadog’s support team saw coming. These cost surprises are all too common, leaving engineering teams scrambling to diagnose issues after the damage is done. In this article, I’ll show how our APX Datadog co

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