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Detailed walkthrough of Uber's CacheFront, an integrated caching solution for low-latency reads

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Inspired by the 1BR Challenge, I wanted to see how much it would cost to transfer 1 billion rows from Postgres to Snowflake. Moving 1 billion rows is no easy task. The process involves not just the transfer of data but ensuring its integrity, error r...

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You can use this guide to get up to speed with Kubernetes as a developer. From its very basics to more intermediate topics like Helm charts and how all of this affects you as a dev.

(A lot of words about where I think serverless computing is going.)

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The Third Browser War and the Fight to Bring the OS to the Cloud

XFaaS is Meta's private platform for "Hyperscale and Low Cost Serverless Functions." It is more efficient than AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, and Google Cloud Functions.

Whenever you’re building a data system, there’s a million things to consider. Gone are the days of just shoving everything into MongoDB and calling it “web scale.” In this newsletter, we’ll be going over the considerations you should be thinking about when building out large scale data systems.