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How Facebook Transfers Exabytes of Data Across The World
Sep 14, 2022

How Facebook Transfers Exabytes of Data Across The World

Facebook needs to send exabytes of data across their different data centers. We talk about how they do this.

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How Pinterest Load Tests their Database
Sep 08, 2022

How Pinterest Load Tests their Database

Pinterest uses Apache Druid for Ad Reporting metrics. Here's how they load test Druid for the holidays.

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How Mixpanel Fixed Their Load Balancing Problem
Sep 01, 2022

How Mixpanel Fixed Their Load Balancing Problem

Mixpanel used a simple technique called The Power of 2 Choices to solve their workload skew issue.

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The Architecture of Facebook's Distributed Message Queue
Aug 30, 2022

The Architecture of Facebook's Distributed Message Queue

The engineering behind Facebook's Ordered Queueing Service and how it implements At Least Once delivery.

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How Netflix Implements Load Shedding
Aug 23, 2022

How Netflix Implements Load Shedding

How Netflix classifies traffic and sheds load to ensure a smooth experience during periods of high usage.

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The Engineering Behind Instagram's Recommendations
Aug 18, 2022

The Engineering Behind Instagram's Recommendations

How Instagram built an Information Retrieval System to power their Suggested Posts feature.

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How Twitch Processes Millions of Video Streams
Aug 05, 2022

How Twitch Processes Millions of Video Streams

How Twitch routes video streams through their private backbone network for transcoding

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How the BBC uses Serverless
Jul 29, 2022

How the BBC uses Serverless

The BBC website must be able to tolerate huge spikes in load. To do this, they rely on AWS Lambda functions.

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How PayPal solved their Thundering Herd Problem
Jul 26, 2022

How PayPal solved their Thundering Herd Problem

Using Exponential Backoff and Jitter when retrying failed jobs to prevent downstream services from getting trampled.

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How Stripe catches Fraud Rings
Jul 21, 2022

How Stripe catches Fraud Rings

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The Architecture of Dropbox's Asynchronous Task Framework
Jul 10, 2022

The Architecture of Dropbox's Asynchronous Task Framework

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How Airbnb Rebuilt their Payments System
Jul 06, 2022

How Airbnb Rebuilt their Payments System

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