Case Studies

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.

Feb 23

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…

Jan 14

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…

Oct 22, 2023

How Airbnb Scaled by Moving Away From a Monolith

4 lessons from Airbnb's scaling strategy, with comparisons to other big tech companies

Oct 11, 2023

How Pinterest scaled to 11 million users with only 6 engineers

Pinterest's tech stack explained simply

Oct 2, 2023

10 lessons from successful one-person startups

I interviewed 7 indie hackers and full-time SWEs with side ventures for their insights.

Sep 28, 2023

How Facebook served billions of requests per second Using Memcached

The largest Memcached system in the world

Sep 25, 2023

How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engineers

Instagram's guiding principles and tech stack explained simply

Sep 15, 2023

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