Infrastructure

Musk has taken a cleaver to the costs and complexity at X. It hasn't always been pretty, but it sure has been effective, and in the process, he's proven his detractors wrong time and again. Not only has the site stayed up, despite hysteric proclamations that it would crater soon after his personnel changes, but X has been able to incre...

There's been a lot of (deserved) criticism towards microservice architecture and how it's usually hurtful to the companies. However, I believe SOA isn't bad ...

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I've been in the software game for almost 30 years professionally, with another 10 dabbling in programming. I'm one of those who think anyone can code, but creating a software product...

Our latest report examines more than 2.4 billion containers run by tens of thousands of Datadog customers to understand the state of the container ecosystem.

With Amazon SQS, you can send and receive messages between software components at any scale. It was one of the first AWS services I used and as a Solutions Architect, I helped many customers take advantage of asynchronous communications using message queues. In fact, Amazon SQS has been generally available since July 2006 and, under […]

This year, AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud have all suffered comparable regional outages. How did they respond, and why do Azure’s processes stand out compared to its rivals?

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Lightstep is the easiest way for developers and SREs to understand complex systems.

One of the more controversial topics in frontend web dev is microfrontends. Are they worth it? Should you really split up your application?

Instrument React and Node applications in your PERN stack with OpenTelemetry.

Leverage Rails controller methods as their own Rack applications to rapidly create and deploy microservices.

Serverless computing, with Lambda functions at the heart of it, has irrevocably changed the way we build and scale applications, more than…

Serverlesspresso workshop

AWS Amplify just announced a public preview of a new code-first developer experience that empowers frontend developers to quickly build and deploy fullstack apps with their existing TypeScript or Javascript skills. The first generation of the tooling offered a tooling-first experience, using a CLI/Console-based interactive workflow to create a backend. Gen 2 transitions to a […]

For businesses and developers utilizing Amazon Web Services (AWS), API Gateway has been a go-to choice for creating and deploying…

When monoliths are the solution to your scaling challenges.

We’ve scaled Kubernetes clusters to 7,500 nodes, producing a scalable infrastructure for large models like GPT-3, CLIP, and DALL·E, but also for rapid small-scale iterative research such as Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models.

This is a technical dive into how we split our data across many MySQL servers. We finished launching this sharding approach in early 2012, and it’s still the system we use today to store our core…

With more than 25 photos and 90 likes every second, we store a lot of data here at Instagram. To make sure all of our important data fits…

How the Figma infrastructure team reduced potential instability by scaling to multiple databases

At Instagram, we have one of the world’s largest deployments of the Apache Cassandra database. We began using Cassandra in 2012 to replace…

Online payment processing for internet businesses. Stripe is a suite of payment APIs that powers commerce for businesses of all sizes.

By: John Blair, Netflix Partner Engineering