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// ๐ซ Engineering blogs digest
Recent, selectively picked blog posts from tech companiesโ engineering blogs.
- โญ๏ธ [Netflix] Ensuring the Successful Launch of Ads on Netflix uncovers best practices when rolling out new major features at Netflix by Jose Fernandez, Ed Barker, Hank Jacobs
- โญ๏ธ [Expedia] Understanding Real-Time Application Monitoring explains how observability and monitoring improve operational excellence at Expedia by Ritesh Kapoor
- โญ๏ธ [Airbnb] Metis: Building Airbnbโs Next Generation Data Management Platform how Airbnb evolved its data catalogue into a platform for managing and governing its data warehouse at scale by Xiaobin Zheng
- โญ๏ธ [Paypal] Unlocking the Power of JunoDB: PayPalโs Key-Value Store Goes Open-Source is a new, extremely scalable and highly available key-value NoSQL store by Yaping Shi
- โญ๏ธ [Netflix] Migrating Netflix to GraphQL Safely discusses no-downtime migration to GraphQL at Netflix by Jennifer Shin, Tejas Shikhare, Will Emmanuel
- โญ๏ธ [Cloudflare] Examining HTTP/3 usage one year on by David Belson and Lucas Pardue
- โญ๏ธ [Etsy] Building Etsyโs Search by Image Feature describes Etsyโs journey to search by image feature by By Eden Dolev and Alaa Awad
- โญ๏ธ [The Guardian] Roll Over Rollups! The Big Future of Ophanโs Historical Data how the Guardianโs real-time analytics tool pivoted from ElasticSearch Rollups to BigQuery and what we learnt along the way by Sam Hession
- โญ๏ธ [Cockroachlabs] Data loss prevention during outages (you might be losing data without knowing it) discusses the tradeoffs between synchronous and asynchronous replication by Charlie Custer and John Sheaffer
- โญ๏ธ [Confluent] GPT-4 + Streaming Data = Real-Time Generative AI describes a framework for how streaming and GPT can work together by Michael Drogalis
- โญ๏ธ [Angular] Angular at Google I/O 2023 by Emma Twersky
// โญ๏ธ Misc
a.k.a. the nerd section ๐งโ๐ป!
- โญ๏ธ Memory Allocation is a brilliant ELI5-style introduction to memory allocation with malloc and free by Sam Rose
- โญ๏ธ View Counting at Reddit explains the magic behind post view counting at scale using Hyper Log Log by Krishnan Chandra
- โญ๏ธ The HTTP crash course nobody asked for is a comprehensive explanation of HTTP/1 and HTTP/2 mechanics with examples in Rust by Amos
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