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Aug 19, 2023

How Uber Scaled Cassandra to Tens of Thousands of Nodes

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 25, 2023

How Grab uses Graph Databases to Reduce Fraud

Plus, Tips on Negotiating Compensation for Software Engineers from a Principal Engineer at Amazon

Sep 04, 2023

Why Netflix integrated a Service Mesh in their Backend

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.

Apr 25, 2023

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.

Aug 10, 2023

How Quora scaled MySQL to 100k+ Queries Per Second

Plus, what makes a great manager of software engineers, how shopify uses pair programming for mentorship, actionable tips on improving speed and more.

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Jun 08, 2023

How OpenAI trained ChatGPT

Plus, how Meta integrated Raft with MySQL, lessons learned at Slack while building on AWS GovCloud and How Nike's bot detection works

☕ The Future of Cloud Computing

Competition in Cloud Computing is heating up. Startups are thriving by carving out their own niches in the space. One cloud computing startup just raised $50 million dollars.

Jan 29, 2021

☕ Google vs. Apple

Apple's change in user policy has huge ramifications for App Developers. Facebook has vociferously protested but Google has mainly stayed out of the discussion... until now.

Jan 27, 2021

☕ Tech Dive - Divide and Conquer Algorithms

Divide and Conquer explained. Plus, a simple formula to quickly figure out the time complexity of your divide and conquer algorithms.

Jan 25, 2021

☕ Delivery Drones

A Google Interview Question. Race conditions in NodeJS. A startup raises $22 million for building drones for commercial purposes.

Jan 23, 2021

☕ Microsoft's Self Driving Car?

Microsoft enters the self driving car space. A new compiler that allows you to run code on encrypted data. Plus, a google interview question.

Jan 22, 2021

☕ Database Replication and Sharding

A quick intro to Database Replication and Sharding! Plus an interview question on binary search trees.

Jan 19, 2021

Killer Google?

An awesome library for developing Quant Finance applications. Plus, a System Design Interview question on databases!

Jan 18, 2021

☕ Open Source GPT-3

GPT-3 is OpenAI's revolutionary language model. A team is working on building an open source version. Plus, an interview question that I recently got from Bloomberg!

Jan 16, 2021

☕ Apple's new strategy

Apple looks into a new service. Time Series databases are blowing up! They were the fastest growing type of database in the enterprise space. Plus a solution to our last coding interview problem.

Jan 14, 2021

☕ Google's Hackers

Project Zero is Google's Offensive Cyber Security team. They're publishing an awesome series on how they find zero day exploits. Plus, VC investment is exploding and a binary tree coding problem.

Jan 13, 2021

Chess AI

An article explaining how Stockfish's Neural Chess Engine works. Visa abandons their planned takeover of Plaid.

Jan 12, 2021

Google Hack?

An answer to our previous interview question on Messaging Queues. Plus how google sign in can cause an attacker to get full access to your google account.

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