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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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A DNS mystery at Adevinta; A failover causing an outage at GitHub; The challenge whether to do a rollback at Reddit; and the difference between public…
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The observability provider was down for more than a day in March. What went wrong, how did the engineering team respond, and what can businesses learn…
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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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Choosing frameworks, languages and architecture approaches at Trello, Birdie, MetalBear and Motive.
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essons on migration projects from Box, Stripe, Pinterest, Doordash, LinkedIn and others.
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Resilient payments systems, large-scale data storage with OLTP and OLAP systems, platform team challenges, and more.
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What platform engineering is, microservice overload and migrating thousands of workflows.
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Circular dependencies in the Roblox outage, being a principal engineer at Amazon, fraud detection utilizing JIRA, and more.
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C++ code sharing, accessible colors, migration patterns and selling more milkshakes. Issue 2.
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Caching, multi-tenancy, E2E tests, and database cutovers. Issue 1.
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