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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

Apple's M1 GPU

An awesome blog post on dissecting Apple's M1 GPU. Plus a System Design Interview question and a solution to yesterday's interview question on building a Queue with Stacks.

Jan 07, 2021

OpenAI Breakthrough

OpenAI publishes a blog post on an amazing model that can generate images given text. Roblox raises a ton of money and plans to go public. Plus, an answer to our last Google Coding Interview question!

Jan 04, 2021

AMD overtakes Intel?

Google and Snap plan on investing $100 million dollars in an Indian startup. AMD overtakes Intel in a certain market for the first time in over 15 years.

Jan 02, 2021

☕ Cracking The Coding Interview In Python?

Python Solutions and Explanations for CTCI. Plus, a cool blog post on the fundamentals of Rust. A beginner coding interview question this time and our solution to the last question on palindromes.

Dec 30, 2020

☕ DeepMind AI

DeepMind released a preprint paper with SOTA results in the video question-answering space. Bloomberg acquires a YCombinator company. An awesome Git cheat sheet and a thread by an Ex-Googler on AWS.

Dec 27, 2020

☕ Zoom In

Zoom is entering new markets. A large investing firm makes a big bet on mobile advertising. Using Machine Learning for arranging Biology studies. Plus an answer to our Facebook Interview question.

Dec 24, 2020

☕ Facebook Interview Question

We talk about using ML to curate Biology Studies, Self-driving cars and Ripple! We also give a detailed solution to our last Google Interview Question.

Dec 22, 2020

☕ Tech Dive - Distributed Computing

A tech dive on distributed computing and the problems that arise from using a network of computers. We also talk about some of the distributed systems models used to design algorithms.

Dec 18, 2020

☕ Google Interview Question

Bitcoin reaches a new all time high, Google unveils a BERT model pre-trained on 17 Indian languages and CoachHub raises a lot of money.

Dec 16, 2020

☕ Regulators crack down

Regulators crack down on one of the biggest fintech startups. Amazon makes a bet on PWAs over native apps. Plus a solution to yesterday's google interview question.

Dec 15, 2020

☕ Amazon's big bet

Amazon wants to train 30 million people to work on cloud computing. Tensorflow 2.4 is here! Ryan Selkis wrote an amazing report on trends in the crypto industry in 2020 and a google interview question

Dec 10, 2020

Buying Killer Robots?

Boston Dynamics has been purchased by an unexpected buyer. Amazon invests in a startup. The solution to yesterday's Dynamic Programming Interview question.

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