Zipline - A Declarative Feature Engineering Library
Explore Zipline, Airbnb's declarative feature engineering library for ML, reducing data preparation time from months to days and enabling efficient point-in-time correct feature generation.
Everything You Wanted to Know About Distributed Tracing
Explore distributed tracing in microservices: concepts, implementation patterns, and troubleshooting techniques. Learn about OpenTelemetry and its benefits for modern, polyglot environments.
Correctness Proofs of Distributed Systems with Isabelle
Explore formal verification of distributed systems using Isabelle/HOL. Learn to prove correctness of algorithms, focusing on consensus and agreement properties in infinite state spaces.
EoS in Kafka - Listen Up, I Will Only Say This Once
Explore Kafka's exactly-once semantics, including idempotence and transactions. Learn about distributed transaction mechanics, two-phase commit protocols, and future improvements for stream processing.
Building a Distributed Build System at Google Scale
Explore the evolution and challenges of distributed build systems, focusing on Google's scalable solutions for fast and resilient development workflows.
Function Passing Style - Typed, Distributed Functional Programming
Explore function-passing style for distributed programming, leveraging Scala's type system and language features to enable safe, asynchronous computation on immutable data across distributed environments.
Rosie Pattern Language - Improving on 50-Year Old Regular Expression Technology
Explore Rosie Pattern Language, an alternative to regular expressions offering improved scalability, readability, and composability for efficient data processing and pattern matching.
Reactive Programming - A Better Way To Write Frontend Applications
Explore functional reactive programming for simplified frontend development, treating data as asynchronous streams and transforming values over time to handle events more effectively.
Why We Built Our Own Distributed Column Store
Explore the architecture and implementation of Retriever, a custom-built distributed column store database inspired by Facebook's Scuba, designed for efficient querying of large-scale event data.
How to Be a Compiler
Explore how compiling code parallels language learning and creative practices, revealing insights into software engineering and fostering an inclusive tech environment.
Scaling Validation and Quality of Streaming Data Products at Twitter
Explore Twitter's data quality engineering, focusing on scaling validation, stress testing, and innovative tools for maintaining high-quality streaming data products in a distributed architecture.
When "Worst" is Best in Distributed Systems
Explore how designing distributed systems for worst-case network behavior can paradoxically improve typical performance, with practical lessons for web, transaction processing, and database applications.
Towards Annex - A Fact Based Dependency System
Explore a novel approach to dependency management using fact-based systems, functional programming, and datalog principles for improved flexibility, reproducibility, and context-aware artifact queries.
Benchmarking - You're Doing It Wrong
Discover common pitfalls in benchmarking and learn techniques to create accurate, meaningful performance measurements for your systems, guiding effective optimization efforts.
The Eight Fallacies of Distributed Computing
Explore eight common misconceptions in distributed computing, their implications, and real-world examples to help developers design more robust and scalable server architectures.
DDD Really Matters
Explore deep collaboration with domain experts and five essential strategies for achieving excellence in software development initiatives.
Static Sites, Dynamic Microservices, and Azure - How We Built Microsoft Docs and Learn
Explore Microsoft's JAMStack-based approach for building Docs and Learn, focusing on scalability, performance, and community contributions through GitHub integration.
So, You Want to Be a CTO?
Explore the path to becoming a successful CTO, covering essential skills, leadership strategies, and experiences needed for this pivotal tech leadership role.
Just Enough Assembly for Compiler Explorer
Learn X86 Assembly basics to understand Compiler Explorer output, including memory, registers, conditionals, loops, and optimizations. Gain skills to analyze your own code's assembly.
Building Confidence in Concurrent Code with a Model Checker
Explore model-checking techniques to detect concurrency errors in system designs. Learn how TLA+ can improve confidence in concurrent code and save time during development.
Welcome to the State Machine
Explore sagas for modeling complex collaborative domains without distributed transactions, focusing on failure handling and eventual consistency in stateful systems.