Scaling Pinterest
Explore Pinterest's growth journey, from startup to tech giant. Learn about scaling challenges, technology decisions, and lessons learned in building a platform for hundreds of millions of users.
Reactive Systems
Explore modern software architectures for 21st-century challenges. Learn about reactive systems, their properties, and how to build responsive, resilient, and scalable applications using message-driven approaches.
Lessons from Building GitHub Code Search
Insights into building GitHub's high-performance code search engine, covering strategies like deduplication, repository similarity, and load balancing to handle massive scale and improve developer productivity.
Advanced Site Rendering Patterns on the Jamstack
Explore advanced Jamstack rendering patterns like Sharding, ISR, DPR, and DSG to build large sites efficiently, reducing build times and improving performance.
Postgres at Any Scale
Explore Postgres performance optimization techniques, from basic app developer interactions to advanced strategies for efficient database management as your application scales.
Elastic Database Client Library and Elastic Database Transactions
Explore Azure SQL Database's elastic tools for scalable multi-tenant applications. Learn about sharding, data-dependent routing, multi-shard queries, and elastic transactions.
Scaling Rails API to Write-Heavy Traffic
Practical techniques for scaling Rails API to handle millions of database transactions per minute, focusing on multiple databases and sharding for write-heavy traffic in mobile gaming.
Migrating to Microservice Databases - From Relational Monolith to Distributed Data
Explore strategies for migrating from monolithic databases to microservices architecture, covering consistency, CQRS, event sourcing, and integration techniques for zero-downtime transitions and data management.
Blockchain for Beginners - Ethereum Scaling Solutions
Explore Ethereum's scalability solutions, including layer 1 and 2 approaches, sharding, sidechains, state channels, and rollups. Learn how these innovations address the scalability trilemma and enable more efficient blockchain applications.
Key Learnings from Building a Distributed Cache Platform at Spotify
Explore key insights from Spotify's journey in building a cloud-based distributed cache service, addressing challenges and achieving scalability for millions of requests per second.
Reacting to the Future of Application Architecture
Explore the future of application architecture through the lens of bee colonies, drawing parallels between reactive systems and nature's efficient organizational structures.
MongoDB - Stepping Around the Pitfalls
Explore MongoDB's pitfalls, marketing claims, and practical solutions for data integrity, clustering, transactions, and performance optimization.
BanyanDB: A Highly Scalable Distributed Tracking Database
Explore BanyanDB, a distributed database for efficient storage and flexible querying of trace data in microservice systems. Learn its design, architecture, and real-world applications.
GitOps at Production Scale with Flux - Scaling Best Practices and Benchmarking
Discover scaling strategies for Flux controllers in production environments, covering vertical and horizontal scaling methods, sharding techniques, and performance benchmarking for efficient GitOps implementation.