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How GitLab Lost 300GB of Production Data and What We Can Learn
Feb 3, 2025
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You’re Not Getting Promoted Because You’re Too Good At Your Job
Oct 19, 2025
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The CAP Theorem Lie Everyone Keeps Repeating
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Processing Trillions: How Lyft's Feature Store Grew by 12%, 33% Faster, With Zero Custom DSLs
Lyft's Feature Store handles 1T+ operations daily, cut P95 latency 33%, and grew callers 25% YoY. How they built ML infrastructure engineers actually…
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The Trillion-Event Platform: How Spotify Built a Data System That Doesn't Break
TL;DR Spotify processes 1.4 trillion data points daily.
Dec 27, 2025
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The 2.1 Billion Problem: How a Single Integer Broke Heroku's API
Inside the 4-Hour Heroku Outage: The Critical Lesson on Integer Overflow, Schema Drift, and the Hidden Danger of Database Statistics
Dec 23, 2025
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How Salesforce Migrated 7 Years of Legacy in 4 Months Instead of 2 Years
Build Apps with Parallel Coding Agents With One Prompt
Dec 17, 2025
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How Stripe built real-time billing analytics that actually works
TL;DR Stripe’s batch-based billing analytics worked fine when updates could wait 24 hours.
Dec 9, 2025
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How Discord indexes Trillions of messages without falling apart
TL;DR Discord’s 2017 search architecture worked beautifully for billions of messages.
Dec 4, 2025
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The Three Things Only Engineering Leaders Can Do (And Why They’re Not Doing Them)
In true Byte-Sized Fashion, no fancy introduction this week, let’s just jump straight into it!
Nov 25, 2025
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