Weekly Digest

The digest that goes out every Monday

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🍔🧠 Behind Reddit's 100K Reads/Sec Database Design

🍔🧠 Behind Reddit's 100K Reads/Sec Database Design

PLUS: LinkedIn Architecture 📚, Containerization Explained 💡, 5 Software Trends to Watch 🔍

Alex Zajac
Alex Zajac
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🍔🧠 How Robinhood Wins at Trading (Graph Algorithms 101)

🍔🧠 How Robinhood Wins at Trading (Graph Algorithms 101)

PLUS: Building WhatsApp 📚, Scaling Google Ads 💡, Engineering Top 1% Lessons 🚀

Alex Zajac
Alex Zajac
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🍔🧠 How Stripe Tracks Time over 1 Trillion Payment Volume

🍔🧠 How Stripe Tracks Time over 1 Trillion Payment Volume

PLUS: Netflix Web Performance 📚, Refactoring 101 🧑‍🎓, Proxy vs Reverse Proxy 🔥

Alex Zajac
Alex Zajac
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🍔🧠 RIP JSON: Clickhouse's New Data Type for Storage

🍔🧠 RIP JSON: Clickhouse's New Data Type for Storage

PLUS: Top 5 Caching Strategies 📚, How to Use Git 🧑‍🎓, Discord's 40% Latency Reduction 🔥

Alex Zajac
Alex Zajac
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🍔🧠 Leetcode Doesn't Work; Here's Better

🍔🧠 Leetcode Doesn't Work; Here's Better

PLUS: Amazon's New Product 📚, Git Branching 🧑‍🎓, 3 Tips From Google Director ⚡

Alex Zajac
Alex Zajac
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🍔🧠 Cloudflare Broke Physics With 150ms Cache Purge

🍔🧠 Cloudflare Broke Physics With 150ms Cache Purge

PLUS: Tesla's Taxi 🚕, Figma to Kubernetes 🧑‍🎓, Logging Cheatsheet 🪵

Alex Zajac
Alex Zajac
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🍔🧠 How Palentir Tested 1+ Million Lines in Typescript

🍔🧠 How Palentir Tested 1+ Million Lines in Typescript

PLUS: OpenAI Strikes Back 😮, Spotify System Design 🧑‍🎓, How Google Search Works 🔍

Alex Zajac
Alex Zajac
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🍔🧠 Discord Cut 40% WebSocket Latency Using This

🍔🧠 Discord Cut 40% WebSocket Latency Using This

PLUS: Meta's AI Hardware 😮, Interview Graph Algorithms 🧑‍🎓, How Netflix Does Load Shedding 👨🏻‍💻

Alex Zajac
Alex Zajac
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🍔🧠 7 Database Types Explained in 1 Email

🍔🧠 7 Database Types Explained in 1 Email

PLUS: OpenAI Robots 🤖, SQL vs NoSQL 101 📚, Future of Writing Code 👨🏻‍💻

Alex Zajac
Alex Zajac
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🍔🧠 Devs That Sleep Well at Night Use This 1 Thing

🍔🧠 Devs That Sleep Well at Night Use This 1 Thing

PLUS: OpenAI's Strawberry 🍓, Distributed Scheduler Design 📚, Concurrency Made Simple 🤓

Alex Zajac
Alex Zajac
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🍔🧠 AWS Lambda 101: How to Handle 10 Trillion Requests a Month

🍔🧠 AWS Lambda 101: How to Handle 10 Trillion Requests a Month

PLUS: RIP VSCode 💀, Free System Design PDF 📚, Javascript Generators Explained ⚡

Alex Zajac
Alex Zajac
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🍔🧠 Redis + WebSockets: Canva's Real-Time Mouse Pointer Sharing Architecture

🍔🧠 Redis + WebSockets: Canva's Real-Time Mouse Pointer Sharing Architecture

PLUS: WebSockets 101 🔥, Scaling 1M Checkboxes 📚, The Tech Promotion Algorithm ⚡

Alex Zajac
Alex Zajac