Archive - ByteByteGo Newsletter

Must-Know Cross-Cutting Concerns in API Development

What do authentication, logging, rate limiting, and input validation have in common?

Apr 9 • ByteByteGo

How Spotify Ships to 675 Million Users Every Week Without Breaking Things

In this article, we will take a look at this process in detail and attempt to derive learnings.

Apr 8 • ByteByteGo

Nextdoor’s Database Evolution: A Scaling Ladder

Nextdoor operates as a hyper-local social networking service that connects neighbors based on their geographic location.

Apr 7 • ByteByteGo

A Guide to Context Engineering for LLMs

In this article, we’ll look at how LLMs actually process the information you give them, what context engineering is, and the strategies that can help…

Apr 6 • ByteByteGo

EP209: 12 Claude Code Features Every Engineer Should Know

CLAUDE. md: A project memory file to define custom rules and conventions. Claude reads at the start of every session.

Apr 4 • ByteByteGo

Our New Book on Behavioral Interviews Is Now Available on Amazon

The book is written by Steve Huynh and published by ByteByteGo.

Apr 3 • ByteByteGo

Database Performance Strategies and Their Hidden Costs

A feature is deployed, and the database queries run well.

Apr 2 • ByteByteGo

How Datadog Redefined Data Replication

In this article, we will look at how Datadog implemented the changes and the challenges they faced.

Apr 1 • ByteByteGo

March 2026

How Meta Turned Debugging Into a Product

In this article, we will look at how DrP works on a high level and the design choices Meta made while building it.

Mar 31 • ByteByteGo

How Roblox Uses AI to Translate 16 Languages in 100 Milliseconds

In this article, we will look at what Roblox built and the trade-offs they made.

Mar 30 • ByteByteGo

EP208: Load Balancer vs API Gateway

Load balancers and API gateways both sit between your clients and backend servers.

Mar 28 • ByteByteGo

LAST CALL FOR ENROLLMENT: Become an AI Engineer - Cohort 5

Our 5th cohort of Becoming an AI Engineer starts tomorrow, March 28. This is a live, cohort-based course created in collaboration with best-selling…

Mar 27 • ByteByteGo

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