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How DoorDash Improved Redis to Handle 10+ Million Reads per Second
A handful of insanely clever things DoorDash did to make Redis blazingly fast
Dec 18
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Richard Oliver Bray
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How Dropbox Saved Millions of Dollars by Building a Load Balancer
Dropbox saved resources by creating a superior version of a tool everyone uses
Dec 11
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Richard Oliver Bray
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How Stripe Processed $1 Trillion in Payments with Zero Downtime
Stripe's hand-crafted system that guarantees their data never gets lost
Dec 4
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Richard Oliver Bray
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November 2024
How Shopify Reduced Metrics Resources by 75%
Shopify saved resources by breaking big tools into tiny reusable services
Nov 27
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Richard Oliver Bray
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How GitHub Reduced Repo Storage Size by Over 90%
GitHub tackled its data overload by introducing a completely new type of file
Nov 20
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Richard Oliver Bray
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How SQLite made Notion 30% Faster
Notion made a tough bet on emerging tech, and it paid off in a big way
Nov 6
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Richard Oliver Bray
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October 2024
How Canva Scaled Their Search to Handle 1M+ Searches Per Minute
Canva massively leveled-up their search by stripping away duplicated processes
Oct 23
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Richard Oliver Bray
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How Uber Reduced Their Log Size By 99%
Uber broke apart an open source tool to massively compress their logs
Oct 9
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Richard Oliver Bray
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September 2024
How Discord Processes 30+ Petabytes of Data
Discord's genius approach to automating insights from billions of messages
Sep 25
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Richard Oliver Bray
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Figma's 100x Approach to Scaling Its Collaborative Experience
How Figma destroyed their old setup and used the pieces to build a better one
Sep 11
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Richard Oliver Bray
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August 2024
Here's What Really Caused 8.5 Million Computers to Crash
How one security product crippled the world because of bad programming
Aug 28
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Richard Oliver Bray
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How Netflix Uses Throttling to Prevent 4 Big Streaming Problems
Netflix reveals their unconventional trick to keep viewers happy
Aug 15
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Richard Oliver Bray
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