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How PayPal Built a Database that serves 350 Billion Requests Per Day
PayPal open sourced JunoDB, a distributed key value store. Also, how Dropbox reduced their search latency and why Val Town migrated away from Supabase
Backtracking
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How Booking.com Searches Through Millions of Locations in Milliseconds
An introduction to Quadtrees and using them for storing map data. Plus, how Pinterest uses Apache Druid for storing ad reporting metrics and how to learn Rust if you're a JavaScript dev.
How Google stores Exabytes of Data
A look into Google Colossus, a massive distributed file system that stores exabytes of data. Plus, when is short tenure a red flag? How to manage technical quality in a codebase and more.
Scaling Microservices at DoorDash
Common microservice failures at DoorDash and how they mitigate them. Plus, nine ways to shoot yourself in the foot with Postgres.
How Slack sends Millions of Messages in Real Time
Plus, how Jane Street writes tests, challenges with caching, why tail latencies matter and more.
Introduction to Distributed Consensus and Paxos
How Etsy Scaled Their Database
Plus MIT's latest Intro to Deep Learning course, Logical Clocks in Distributed Systems, Twitter's Rec Algorithm and more.
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A Dive Into The CAP Theorem (Quastor Pro)
A dive into the CAP Theorem, the exact definitions of Consistency, Availability, Partition Tolerance and more.
How Faire Scaled Their Engineering Team
Plus, how to build ChatGPT Plugins, how Amazon does CI/CD, scaling a Notification Service and more.