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Inside Stripe’s Engineering Culture - Part 1
Stripe is one of the largest online payment companies and operates one of the world’s largest Ruby codebases. But there’s more to Stripe than payments…
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Inside OpenAI: How does ChatGPT Ship So Quickly?
Since it arrived a year ago, ChatGPT has been shipping at breakneck speed. Evan Morikawa, the first engineering manager for this group shares what…
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Building an Observability Startup: Chronosphere
From learning to code in Australia, to launching Chronosphere in Silicon Valley. Cofounder and CEO Martin Mao shares his story, and offers advice for…
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Building Meta’s Threads App (Real-World Engineering Challenges)
The Threads app was downloaded by more than 100M people on launch week. How did the engineering team build the app, and handle an unexpectedly intense…
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Inside Agoda’s Private Cloud: Part 2
The application stack running on the private cloud, Agoda’s cloud strategy, and whether to move to the cloud or stay on-prem.
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Inside Agoda’s Private Cloud: Part 1
The evolution of data centers; the hardware inside data centers, and availability zones inside Agoda, and a tour of the DCs. Exclusive details.
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Inside Figma’s Engineering Culture
A deep dive into how the dev team works at Figma and their “build with deliberation, build with pride” engineering culture. As told by Figma’s CTO, Kris…
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Inside Sourcegraph’s Engineering Culture: Part 2
A deep dive into how Sourcegraph works from the perspective of software engineers and engineering managers. Part 2.
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Inside Sourcegraph’s Engineering Culture: Part 1
A deep dive into how Sourcegraph works from the perspective of software engineers and engineering managers.
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Real-world Engineering Challenges #8: Breaking up a Monolith
A deep dive into how Khan Academy took a 1 million-line Python monolith and split it into ~40 Go services in a more than 3 year-long project.
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The Story of Linear as told by its CTO
Tuomas Artman went from Big Tech to startup co-founder. He shares building of Linear, the working culture and learnings from Big Tech
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Inside Meta's Engineering Culture: Part 2
A broad and deep dive in how Facebook / Meta works, from the perspective of SWEs and EMs.
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