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The 80% Problem: Why Getting an LLM System to 'Works in Demo' Is 20% of the Work

The 80% Problem: Why Getting an LLM System to 'Works in Demo' Is 20% of the Work

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14 min read
LinkedIn Needed a Message Queue. They Built the One the Entire Internet Runs On.

LinkedIn Needed a Message Queue. They Built the One the Entire Internet Runs On.

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15 min read
Figma's Database Grew 100x in Four Years — Here's How a Small Team Kept It From Toppling

Figma's Database Grew 100x in Four Years — Here's How a Small Team Kept It From Toppling

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12 min read
Datadog Went Dark for 24 Hours and Came Back With a Different Philosophy

Datadog Went Dark for 24 Hours and Came Back With a Different Philosophy

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13 min read
Uber Had 150,000 Secrets Scattered Across 25 Vaults — So They Built One Platform to Rule Them

Uber Had 150,000 Secrets Scattered Across 25 Vaults — So They Built One Platform to Rule Them

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14 min read
OpenAI Runs ChatGPT for 800 Million Users on One PostgreSQL Instance — and It Works

OpenAI Runs ChatGPT for 800 Million Users on One PostgreSQL Instance — and It Works

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13 min read
Netflix Unleashed a Monkey With a Weapon in Its Own Data Center — On Purpose

Netflix Unleashed a Monkey With a Weapon in Its Own Data Center — On Purpose

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14 min read
Slack Cut Deploy-Related Customer Impact by 90% in Eighteen Months

Slack Cut Deploy-Related Customer Impact by 90% in Eighteen Months

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11 min read
65 Million Streams: How Netflix Rebuilt Its Guts for Live

65 Million Streams: How Netflix Rebuilt Its Guts for Live

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14 min read
Slack Rewrote Its Core Architecture for Enterprise — Because the Old One Was a Lie

Slack Rewrote Its Core Architecture for Enterprise — Because the Old One Was a Lie

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11 min read
Netflix's Containers Were Fighting Their Own CPUs — and Losing

Netflix's Containers Were Fighting Their Own CPUs — and Losing

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12 min read
Netflix Streamed Live Sports for Millions — and the Hard Part Wasn't the Video

Netflix Streamed Live Sports for Millions — and the Hard Part Wasn't the Video

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11 min read
The Test That Broke GitHub: A Failover Drill Goes Live

The Test That Broke GitHub: A Failover Drill Goes Live

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14 min read
When MS Dhoni Got Out: How Hotstar Survived 25 Million Concurrent Users

When MS Dhoni Got Out: How Hotstar Survived 25 Million Concurrent Users

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13 min read
Stripe Converted 3.7 Million Lines of JavaScript in One Pull Request on a Sunday

Stripe Converted 3.7 Million Lines of JavaScript in One Pull Request on a Sunday

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11 min read
Cloudflare's Datacenter Partner Failed and the Control Plane Went Dark for 40 Hours

Cloudflare's Datacenter Partner Failed and the Control Plane Went Dark for 40 Hours

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11 min read
How a Two-Line Script Silently Deleted 883 Customer Cloud Sites

How a Two-Line Script Silently Deleted 883 Customer Cloud Sites

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12 min read
Shopify's Engineers Hunted Deadlocks at 19 Million Queries per Second

Shopify's Engineers Hunted Deadlocks at 19 Million Queries per Second

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11 min read
Slack's Worst Day: When a Better Cache Manager Made Everything Worse

Slack's Worst Day: When a Better Cache Manager Made Everything Worse

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12 min read
Discord Killed the MacBook Dev Environment and Never Looked Back

Discord Killed the MacBook Dev Environment and Never Looked Back

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11 min read
Netflix Made Their Workflow Orchestrator 100x Faster by Rewriting the Engine Nobody Thought Was Slow

Netflix Made Their Workflow Orchestrator 100x Faster by Rewriting the Engine Nobody Thought Was Slow

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11 min read
How Discord Migrated Trillions of Messages and Fired Their Garbage Collector

How Discord Migrated Trillions of Messages and Fired Their Garbage Collector

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13 min read
Netflix Hit the AWS Instance Ceiling and Built a Workflow Engine That Scales Forever

Netflix Hit the AWS Instance Ceiling and Built a Workflow Engine That Scales Forever

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11 min read
Shopify Sharded a Rails Database With Vitess and the App Never Knew It Happened

Shopify Sharded a Rails Database With Vitess and the App Never Knew It Happened

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11 min read
A Database Permission Change in ClickHouse Took Down 28% of Cloudflare's HTTP Traffic

A Database Permission Change in ClickHouse Took Down 28% of Cloudflare's HTTP Traffic

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11 min read
Cloudflare Fixed a React Security Vulnerability and Broke the Entire Network

Cloudflare Fixed a React Security Vulnerability and Broke the Entire Network

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11 min read
How Stripe Moves Petabytes Between Database Shards Without Stopping the Money

How Stripe Moves Petabytes Between Database Shards Without Stopping the Money

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12 min read
How GitHub Upgraded 1200 MySQL Hosts Without Dropping a Single Query

How GitHub Upgraded 1200 MySQL Hosts Without Dropping a Single Query

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13 min read
Slack Built a Big Red Button to Drain an Entire Data Center in Five Minutes

Slack Built a Big Red Button to Drain an Entire Data Center in Five Minutes

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