Infrastructure

The software industry is learning once again that complexity kills

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

#37: Learn More - Zapier Architecture Overview (5 minutes)

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...

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!

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.

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

Intro

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