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A Guide To Event-Driven Architectural Patterns
Distributed systems are built out of services that need to communicate, and the simplest way to do that is for one service to call another directly and…
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High Performance Rate Limiting at Databricks
In this article, we look at how Databricks implemented rate limiting at scale, how they shrank the critical path, and the accuracy tradeoff that…
May 13
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How Figma Upgraded Data Pipeline from Multi-Day Latency to Real-Time
In this article, we will learn what happened as Figma grew and how its engineering team handled the growth in terms of the data pipeline issues.
May 12
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How Pinterest Built a Production MCP Ecosystem
In this article, we look at how Pinterest designed that ecosystem and what they had to get right beyond the protocol itself.
May 11
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EP214: Claude Code vs. OpenClaw: 5 Design Dimensions
Both are highly capable, but they have key architectural differences.
May 9
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Become an AI Engineer | Enrollment Ends Soon
Our 6th cohort of Becoming an AI Engineer starts in about a week.
May 8
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Container Design Patterns for Distributed Systems
In this article, we’ll walk through the patterns that have crystallized over the past decade, organized by the scope of their coordination.
May 7
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How Instacart Built a Search for Billions of Products
In this article, we will learn how Instacart’s search infrastructure evolved over the years and the challenges its engineering team faced.
May 5
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Connecting LLMs to the Real World: Tool Use, Function Calling, and MCP
In this article, we will look at this progression that has happened from basic tool use to function calling to the Model Context Protocol, allowing the…
May 4
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EP213: MCP vs Skills, Clearly Explained
Both MCP and Skills extend what an agent can do. But they solve different problems, and picking the wrong one adds cost or complexity you don't need.
May 2
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April 2026
A Beginner’s Guide to Kubernetes
In this article, we will learn how Kubernetes is a system of promises, and that every piece of it is a small program keeping one of those promises.
Apr 30
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The Tech Stack Powering Wise
In 2024, Wise’s deployment system automatically blocked hundreds of releases that would have caused production incidents.
Apr 29
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