How Netflix classifies traffic and sheds load to ensure a smooth experience during periods of high usage.
How Instagram built an Information Retrieval System to power their Suggested Posts feature.
Using CNNs, Word Embeddings and an Inverted Index to build Image Search
How Twitch routes video streams through their private backbone network for transcoding
The BBC website must be able to tolerate huge spikes in load. To do this, they rely on AWS Lambda functions.
Using Exponential Backoff and Jitter when retrying failed jobs to prevent downstream services from getting trampled.