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A Guide to Database Sharding: Key Strategies
This article looks at the fundamentals of database sharding. We cover details like why it matters, how it works, and what trade-offs come with it. We’ll…
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How Tinder’s API Gateway Handles A Billion Swipes Per Day
Tinder operates globally. Real user traffic pours in from over 190 countries. So does bad traffic that includes bots, scrapers, and abuse attempts.
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EP171: The Generative AI Tech Stack
GenAI refers to systems capable of creating new content, such as text, images, code, or music, by learning patterns from existing data.
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Database Index Internals: Understanding the Data Structures
In this article, we will cover the core internal data structures that power database indexes. Each section will walk through how the structure works…
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How Discord Stores Trillions of Messages with High Performance
We will walk through how Discord rebuilt its message storage layer from the ground up. We will learn the issues Discord faced with Apache Cassandra® and…
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EP170: All-in-One Technical Interview Prep Kit
Testing system functionality ensures that a system or software application performs as expected, meets user requirements, and operates reliably.
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A Guide to Database Replication: Key Concepts and Strategies
We will cover single-leader, multi-leader, and leaderless replication models, breaking down how each works, what problems they solve, and where they…
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7 Years, 8 Books, 1 Launch. A lot more to come!
7 Years, 8 Books, 1 Launch.
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How Spotify Uses GenAI and ML to Annotate a Hundred Million Tracks
This article explains how Spotify addressed these challenges by building an annotation platform designed to scale with its machine learning needs.
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June 2025

EP169: RAG vs Agentic RAG
What else will you add to better understand RAG vs Agentic RAG?
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Database Indexing Demystified: Index Types and Use-Cases
In this article, we will explore the basic concept of database indexing and different index types.
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Inside Airbnb’s AI-Powered Pipeline to Migrate Tests: Months of Work in Days
This article covers the structure of the automation pipeline, the trade-offs behind prompt engineering vs. brute-force retries, the methods used to…
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