Getting started in a career in platform engineering
Infrastructure
Ten Years and Counting: My Affair with Microservices
In early 2024, I hit ten years at Allegro, which also happens to be how long I’ve been working with microservices.
This timespan also roughly corresponds to how long the company as a whole has been using them, so I think it’s a good time to outline the story of project
Rubicon: a very ambitious gamble which completely changed how we work and what our software is like. The idea probably seemed rather extreme at the time, yet I
am certain that without this change, Allegro would not be where it is today, or perhaps would not be there at all.
How to enable axios keepAlive? · Issue #1846 · axios/axios
I want to use axios keepAlive. but don't know how,Can you give me the answer?
Improving API Performance with HTTP Keepalive | State Farm Engineering
State Farm Enterprise Technology Blog
The hater’s guide to Kubernetes
Death By a Thousand Microservices
The software industry is learning once again that complexity kills
System Design of Uber's CacheFront - Serving more than 40 million low-latency reads per second
Detailed walkthrough of Uber's CacheFront, an integrated caching solution for low-latency reads
How Zapier Automates Billions of Tasks
#37: Learn More - Zapier Architecture Overview (5 minutes)
Moving a Billion Postgres Rows on a $100 Budget
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...
The Billion Row Challenge (1BRC) - Step-by-step from 71s to 1.7s
I took part in the Billion Row Challenge. Enjoy a deep, step-by-step summary of how you get from a Parallel Java Streams implementation that takes 71 seconds to a super-optimized version that takes 1.7 seconds. Example code and walkthroughs included!
What is Kubernetes? An Unorthodox Guide for Developers
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.
Internet Computers
The Third Browser War and the Fight to Bring the OS to the Cloud
Interop 2024 Launch - Bocoup
Intro
Dealing with diverged git branches
The next evolution of serverless is stateful
(A lot of words about where I think serverless computing is going.)
XXIIVV — permacomputing
Why multi-cloud: the 5 best reasons, according to experts
How we migrated our PostgreSQL database with 11 seconds downtime
Why we use AWS instead of Vercel to host our Next.js app
Escaping the Cost/Visibility Tradeoff in Observability Platforms
Eigensolutions: composability as the antidote to overfit • Lea Verou
Committing without git | Matheus Tavares
How Gradle Reduced Build Scan Storage Costs on AWS by 75% | Develocity
Is API design a lost art? | InfoWorld
Living on the Edge: Running Code and Serving Data with Edge Services
Rethinking Serverless with FLAME
What is a distributed database and when should you use one
The One Billion Row Challenge
Understanding Real-Time Application Monitoring
Retries – An interactive study of common retry methods – Encore Blog