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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
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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
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November 2025
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
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How Instacart Scales Real-Time Inventory Predictions Across 80,000 Stores
Here’s a dirty secret of on-demand commerce: nobody knows the real inventory state of a grocery store.
Nov 15
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How Etsy Reduced Page Load Time to 0ms
Etsy shipped a performance improvement so dramatic that 40% of their users now see product pages load in essentially zero milliseconds.
Nov 9
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When Your ML Training Grinds to a Halt: Pinterest’s Wild Bug Hunt
How a 50% performance drop led engineers from PyTorch to page tables
Nov 5
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October 2025
Your Team Will Never Scale If You Keep Doing Everything Yourself
Why the smartest engineers build leverage, not backlogs.
Oct 30
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The AWS October 20th Outage Dissection
15 hours. 113 services. One empty DNS record.
Oct 23
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The Code Review That Actually Taught Me Something
Why the best senior engineers review differently (and how it changed my career)
Oct 21
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You’re Not Getting Promoted Because You’re Too Good At Your Job
Wondering why you didn’t get promoted? Here’s how being too good at execution can actually hold you back.
Oct 19
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The CAP Theorem Lie Everyone Keeps Repeating
I had a architect tell me last week that their system “chose CP over AP” for their distributed cache.
Oct 14
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🧠 From Prompts to Partners: How LinkedIn Built Its Agentic Stack
Inside the tech shift that turned LLMs into collaborative, reasoning systems powering LinkedIn’s new AI agents.
Oct 12
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