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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…
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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…
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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…
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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
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Gergely Orosz
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Elin Nilsson
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…
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Gergely Orosz
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