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June 2025

When KV Falls: Cloudflare’s Two-Hour Outage
How a Single Storage Dependency Broke Access, WARP, AI, and More
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How Dropbox Optimizes Search
How Dropbox Dash Taught Universal Search to Speak Photo, Video, and Audio
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70% Latency Decrease: How Squarespace Sped Up Their Media Uploads
How a Simple Write-Back Cache Saved SquareSpace from a GCS Bottleneck
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How Uber Uses GenAI to Fix Java Resource Leaks
Real-world programming workflows augmented by AI
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When a Foreign Key Crashed Heroku
How a Simple Schema Bug Took Down Heroku, and How the Immediate Fix Made It Worse
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May 2025

From Flat to Flexible: Rewriting GitHub Issue Search with Nested Elasticsearch Logic
How GitHub Engineered Nested Search with Elasticsearch
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You’ll Never Believe What Netflix Had to Do to Track a Simple Ad View
From overloaded tokens to a centralized publisher and metadata registry, how Netflix reengineered ad telemetry.
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The Rewrite That Saved Millions of Memories
How Dropbox Fixed Photo Uploads Without Breaking Trust
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🏗️ How Airbnb Rearchitected Their Frontend for a Faster, Smoother Experience
From Rails Pages to React Routes: The Migration That Changed Everything
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Scaling Billions of Rows of Ad Data from 2,000+ Sources at Salesforce
What it takes to unify fragmented data, scale metadata, and serve insights at enterprise speed
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📦 Pinterest Migrated 3.7M Lines to TypeScript. Here’s How They Pulled It Off
A breakdown of Pinterest’s tooling, automation, and lessons from rewriting their frontend at scale
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