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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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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 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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Challenges that come with Distributed Systems
Jul 19, 2022

Challenges that come with Distributed Systems

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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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Building a Search Index with Kafka and Elasticsearch
Feb 15, 2022

Building a Search Index with Kafka and Elasticsearch

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How LinkedIn scaled Hadoop Distributed File System to store 1 Exabyte of data
Nov 06, 2021

How LinkedIn scaled Hadoop Distributed File System to store 1 Exabyte of data

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Rate Limiting at Stripe
Oct 16, 2021

Rate Limiting at Stripe

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