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How Amazon Key Opens 100 Million Doors Every Year
We recently had the wonderful opportunity to sit with Kaushik Mani and Vijay Nagarajan from the Amazon Key team to learn how they built this system and…
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How Uber Eats Handles Billions of Daily Search Queries
In this article, we look at the breakdown of how Uber Eats rebuilt its search platform to handle this scale without degrading performance or relevance.
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EP164: JWT Simply Explained
JWT or JSON Web Tokens is an open standard for securely transmitting information between two parties. They are widely used for authentication and…
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API Gateway vs Service Mesh - Which One Do You Need
In this article, we look at both API Gateways and Service Mesh in detail, along with their key differences and usage goals.
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How Facebook Live Scaled to a Billion Users
In this article, we’ll look at how Facebook Live was built and the kind of challenges they faced.
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How Pinterest Scaled Its Architecture to Support 500 Million Users
In this article, we’ll look at how Pinterest scaled its architecture to handle the scale and the challenges they faced along the way.
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EP163: 12 MCP Servers You Can Use in 2025
MCP (Model Context Protocol) is an open standard that simplifies how AI models, particularly LLMs, interact with external data sources, tools, and…
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Engineering Trade-offs: Eventual Consistency in Practice
Modern applications don’t run on a single database or monolithic backend anymore. They run on event-driven, distributed systems.
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How Slack Supports Billions of Daily Messages
At peak weekday hours, Slack maintains over five million simultaneous WebSocket sessions. That’s not just a metric, but a serious architectural…
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EP162: 9 Clean Code Principles To Keep In Mind
Meaningful Names: Name variables and functions to reveal their purpose, not just their value.
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Messaging Patterns Explained: Pub-Sub, Queues, and Event Streams
What happens when the downstream service is overloaded? Or slow? Or down entirely?
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How Halo on Xbox Scaled to 10+ Million Players using the Saga Pattern
One powerful pattern for solving this problem is the Saga Pattern, a technique originally proposed in the late 1980s but increasingly relevant today.
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