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Real-world engineering challenges: building Cursor
Cursor has grown 100x in load in just a year, sees 1M+ QPS for its data layer, and serves billions of code completions, daily. A deepdive into how it’s…
Jun 10
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Gergely Orosz
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Building, launching, and scaling ChatGPT Images
ChatGPT Images is OpenAI’s biggest launch yet, with 100 million NEW users generating 700 million images in the first week. But how was it built? A…
May 13
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Gergely Orosz
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Building Figma Slides with Noah Finer and Jonathan Kaufman
Figma engineers Jonathan Kaufman and Noah Finer share how they built Figma Slides from a hackathon project into a polished product, covering key…
Mar 26
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Gergely Orosz
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AI Engineering in the real world
What does AI engineering look like in practice? Hands-on examples and learnings from software engineers turned “AI engineers” at seven companies
Mar 25
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Gergely Orosz
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Live streaming at world-record scale with Ashutosh Agrawal
In May 2023, a live streaming world record was set with 32 million concurrent viewers watching the finale of the Indian Premier League cricket finale. A…
Feb 12
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Gergely Orosz
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How Shopify Built Its Live Globe for Black Friday
Shopify has built a surprisingly fun and engaging Black Friday / Cyber Monday visual tracker, simulating a spaceship's interior. A deepdive in how this…
Dec 17, 2024
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Gergely Orosz
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How Anthropic built Artifacts
The team behind Artifacts - an innovative new way to interact with Claude - shares how they built this innovative feature in just three months with a…
Aug 27, 2024
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Gergely Orosz
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The biggest-ever global outage: lessons for software engineers
Cybersecurity vendor CrowdStrike shipped a routine rule definition change to all customers, and chaos followed as 8.5M machines crashed, worldwide…
Jul 23, 2024
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Gergely Orosz
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Startups on hard mode: Oxide. Part 1: Hardware
What is tougher than building a software-only or hardware-only startup? Building a combined hardware and software startup. This is what Oxide is doing…
May 21, 2024
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Gergely Orosz
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Applied AI Software Engineering: RAG
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is a common building block of AI software engineering. A deep dive into what it is, its limitations, and some…
May 14, 2024
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Gergely Orosz
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Ross McNairn
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Building Bluesky: a Distributed Social Network (Real-World Engineering Challenges)
Bluesky is built by around 10 engineers, and has amassed 5 million users since publicly launching in February this year. A deep dive into novel design…
Apr 23, 2024
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Gergely Orosz
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Elin Nilsson
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Scaling ChatGPT: Five Real-World Engineering Challenges
Just one year after its launch, ChatGPT had more than 100M weekly users. In order to meet this explosive demand, the team at OpenAI had to overcome…
Feb 20, 2024
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Gergely Orosz
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