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Meta's new LLM-based test generator is a sneak peek to the future of development
Meta's TestGen-LLM is a sneak peek to the future of developer productivity: specialized, orchestrated, and rigorously filtered.
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How Apple built iCloud to store billions of databases
Apple uses Cassandra and FoundationDB for CloudKit, their cloud backend service. We take a look into how exactly each is used within their cloud and the…
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How Google takes the pain out of code reviews, with 97% dev satisfaction
A study of Google's code review tooling (Critique), AI-powered improvements, and recent statistics
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Meta's serverless platform processes trillions of function calls a day
XFaaS is Meta's private platform for "Hyperscale and Low Cost Serverless Functions." It is more efficient than AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, and Google…
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How Airbnb Scaled by Moving Away From a Monolith
4 lessons from Airbnb's scaling strategy, with comparisons to other big tech companies
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How Google writes clean, maintainable code
Google's SWE Book explains their readability process and style guides
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How Pinterest scaled to 11 million users with only 6 engineers
Pinterest's tech stack explained simply
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10 lessons from successful one-person startups
I interviewed 7 indie hackers and full-time SWEs with side ventures for their insights.
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How Facebook served billions of requests per second Using Memcached
The largest Memcached system in the world
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How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engineers
Instagram's guiding principles and tech stack explained simply
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