High Scalability

How do you scale a system from one user to more than 11 million users? Joel Williams , Amazon W...

The ever amazing slime mold is not the only way to solve complex compute problems without perfo...

This blog post was written by Dedeepya Bonthu. This is a repost from her Medium article, approved by the author.In stadiums, sports fans love to express themselves by cheering for their favorite teams, holding up placards and team logos. Emoji's allow fan

This blog post was written by Josh Clemm, Senior Director of Engineering at Uber Eats. This is a repost from his LinkedIn article, approved by the author.On a cold evening in Paris in 2008, Travis Kalanick and Garrett Camp couldn't get a cab. That's when

This is a guest article by Stanislav Kozlovski, an Apache Kafka Committer. If you would like to connect with Stanislav, you can do so on Twitter and LinkedIn.AWS S3 is a service every engineer is familiar with.It's the service that popularized the notion

This week I've been reading through the recent judgment from the Swedish FSA on the Swedbank outage. If you're unfamiliar with this story, Swedbank had a major outage in April 2022 that was caused by an unapproved change to their IT systems. It temporaril

Presto is a free, open source SQL query engine. We've been using it at Meta for the past ten years, and learned a lot while doing so. Running anything at scale - tools, processes, services - takes problem solving to overcome unexpected challenges. Here ar

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