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An introduction to Apache Cassandra and issues Uber ran into when scaling. Plus, API versioning practices at LinkedIn, challenging algorithms to try and more.
Aug 19, 2023
Plus, Tips on Negotiating Compensation for Software Engineers from a Principal Engineer at Amazon
Aug 25, 2023
We'll talk about what a service mesh is, what purpose it serves and why Netflix added one. Plus, strategies you can use to achieve your goals.
Sep 04, 2023
Common microservice failures at DoorDash and how they mitigate them. Plus, nine ways to shoot yourself in the foot with Postgres.
Apr 25, 2023
Plus, what makes a great manager of software engineers, how shopify uses pair programming for mentorship, actionable tips on improving speed and more.
Aug 10, 2023
Plus, how Meta integrated Raft with MySQL, lessons learned at Slack while building on AWS GovCloud and How Nike's bot detection works
Jun 08, 2023
Plus, what it's like to find a developer job in 2024, how to learn hard things and more.
Feb 12, 2024
Plus, lessons from 8 years of Kubernetes, how Slack's CPO makes product decisions and more.
Feb 09, 2024
Plus, things you should know about Time Zones, advice from the co-founder of HashiCorp on building large technical projects and more!
Feb 04, 2024
This is a technical dive on Postgres. We'll be talking about it's key features, storage engine, MVCC, extensions, criticisms and more.
Arpan KGJan 28, 2024
Plus, Stable Diffusion explained visually, why you should open source your company, pair programming antipatterns and more.
Jan 22, 2024
We'll be talking about Kafka, the ELK stack and Clickhouse. Also, how Apple built iCloud to store billions of databases, focusing on impact, and more.
Jan 17, 2024
We delve into Round Robin, Weighted Round Robin, Least Connections, Power of Two Choices and much more.
Jan 11, 2024
Lyft switched their data store from Apache Druid to ClickHouse. We'll give brief overviews of Druid and ClickHouse and also talk about why they shifted.
Jan 04, 2024
Raft is a distributed consensus protocol used in Kafka, MongoDB, CoackroachDB, Etcd and more. We'll delve into the protocol and explain it with some visuals.
Dec 30, 2023
We'll talk about Bloom Filters, Roaring Bitmaps and the Sliding Window Rate Limiting Algorithm. Plus, Basecamp's first year of results after shifting away from the cloud.
Dec 20, 2023
Andrej Karpathy (former Director of AI at Tesla) gave a fantastic talk on his YouTube channel on LLMs. Plus, how Uber calculates ETA, strategies to improve hiring quality at your org and more.
Dec 14, 2023
We'll be talking about implementing authentication with passwords, federated identity (OAuth, SAML), OTPs and more. We'll also delve into JWTs and Session-based Auth.
Dec 11, 2023