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A deep dive into the open source recommendation system powering one of the world's largest social platforms
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Separate your reads from writes and stop fighting with your database
The library that brings HTML back to life and makes you question everything you thought you knew about frontend development
Inside Google Spanner, the database that broke the rules of distributed systems
How message queues help build scalable, resilient systems that don't fall apart under pressure
Inside the distributed storage system that powers Netflix, Airbnb, and most of the internet
How databases across servers agree to commit or rollback without losing data
A 25-minute disruption affected 28% of HTTP traffic globally triggered by a security fix and exposed by a killswitch that had never been tested on 'execute' actions
Why microservices might be overkill and how to build systems that actually scale
The overlooked middle ground between polling and WebSockets
The battle-tested technique that powers notifications when persistent connections fail
The engineering behind real-time stock prices that move faster than you can blink
Why Docker uses YAML, Rust picks TOML, and Akka chose HOCON over JSON
A 6-hour disruption took down ChatGPT, X, Spotify, Dropbox, and millions of sites worldwide - here's the technical breakdown and lessons for developers
The simple signal that prevents your servers from becoming digital zombies
