Hacking Scale by Better Stack

How LinkedIn Reduced GPU Memory Usage by 60% for LLM Training

LinkedIn hand-picked the best GPU performance techniques and put them in a library

Jan 16 • 

Richard Oliver Bray

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How Tinder Secures Its 500+ Microservices

Tinder's highly customised solution that fixed their microservice security chaos

Jan 8 • 

Richard Oliver Bray

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December 2024

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, 2024 • 

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, 2024 • 

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, 2024 • 

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, 2024 • 

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, 2024 • 

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, 2024 • 

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, 2024 • 

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, 2024 • 

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, 2024 • 

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, 2024 • 

Richard Oliver Bray

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