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Pinterest reached 11.7 million monthly active users (MAUs) in January 2012 with just six engineers. It was the fastest company at the time to surpass 10 million MAUs. Pinterest's growth journey involved several lessons, such as favoring database sharding over clustering and sharding incrementally over time. It faced numerous problems along the way, like data corruption due to some bugs in its clustering algorithm. This article dives into how Pinterest’s backend architecture evolved over time, such as the fact that it transitioned from Django to Flask as it grew.
This article discusses how text encoding has evolved over time and how UTF-8 is the dominant encoding method today. UTF-8 is described as a variable-length encoding, ranging from one to four bytes per code point, making it efficient for a wide range of languages. UTF-8 is also compatible with ASCII and has solid error detection and recovery capabilities. The article dives through various simple questions regarding UTF-8 from a software developer’s perspective.
Bun is a rival JavaScript runtime to Node.js and Deno. In this article, you’ll look at Bun 1.0 in comparison to its counterparts and examine the reasons it may be worth a try!
This article argues that the decision to require everyone to return to the office lacks a factual basis and disregards the situations of employees. It also talks about the potential consequences of such a decision, including the loss of top talent in the tech industry.
The 300% production problem is that to get an application into production, you need to be an expert on the deployment target, the deployment methodology, and in the application itself. Each of these expertise layers is a full-time job or undertaking. The ultimate solution to this problem is simplicity.
Great companies are built by great people who have great managers. This is certainly true for the engineering team at DoorDash. Defining what great engineering management looks like for DoorDash has been critical for its success as a business. This article gives you a glimpse into the core values that back its teams and managers along the way.
Python 3.12 has been released, featuring a better debugging and profiling API, flexible f-string parsing, more performance improvements, a new type annotation syntax for generic classes, and more.
OpenStatus is an open-source synthetic monitoring platform. It features both custom monitoring and alerting, with support for custom headers and fast incident alerts.
Instant.dev offers a speedy, dependable, and battle-tested Object-Relational Mapping and migration management system for Postgres 13+ in JavaScript. For individuals familiar with Ruby on Rails, instant.dev introduces functionality similar to ActiveRecord in the Node.js, Deno, and Bun ecosystems. It’s designed to work with any JavaScript stack.
A collection of professionally designed, everyday UI components built on Web standards. Works with all frameworks as well as regular
Frustrated with conventional framework-based dependency injection, Daniel Somerfield, a software engineer with over 20 years of experience, has developed a composition strategy that utilizes partial application to inject context into modules. This article provides a first-person view of how Somerfield identifies and solves a technical problem within his team. By opting to fulfill dependency contracts with functions instead of classes, minimizing code sharing between modules, and guiding the design through tests, Somerfield successfully created a system composed of highly discrete, evolvable, yet still type-safe modules.
Recent developments in AI, such as Meta’s personality-driven chatbots voiced by celebrities, open the door to more immersive AI interactions. There is the potential for AI companions that are warm, empathetic, and helpful, akin to the concept popularized in the movie "Her." These AI companions could provide support and entertainment, particularly for individuals who are lonely or isolated. However, there are unanswered questions about how AI will affect society in terms of personalization, engagement, and loneliness.
In the midst of industry discussions about productivity and automation, it’s all too easy to forget to fully come to terms with complexity. However, it’s important that we don’t ignore complexity or see it as something that can be fixed: we need to embrace it and use it to our advantage.
16 quick lessons from debugging, such as getting a second set of eyes on your code.
VPNs encrypt data to prevent unauthorized people from eavesdropping on traffic. This article quickly explains how VPNs work.
This article explores how to manage vector data in a PostgreSQL database using Supabase. It also delves deeper into the creation of embeddings using OpenAI, which offers an efficient way to transform complex data into meaningful numerical representations.