Zalando Engineering

JUNE 30, 2020

Our Engineering Blog was launched in June 2020 after a long break of the previous tech blog. What customizations we applied to design the blog and the publishing process. Static Site Generator Our previous tech blog used a CMS which only a limited number of people had access to. It's actively developed.

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Christophe Blefari

APRIL 19, 2024

This blog shows how you can use Gen AI to evaluate inputs like translations with added reasons. Spark (and Theseus) on GPUs benchmark — A detailed benchmark by Voltron data about running Spark and Theseus (their GPU data processing engine) workloads on GPUs. — A great blog to answer a great question.

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Data Engineering Weekly

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

If we had the Data Mesh SQL Processor earlier, we would’ve been able to avoid spending engineering resources to build smaller building blocks such as the Union Processor, Column Rename Processor, Projection, and Filtering Processor. That is a very wise quote from the Netflix engineering team.

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Workfall

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

In this blog, we are going to see some use cases of ChatGPT for developers such as yourself. Here we will demonstrate how to create a simple ChatGPT-powered application that enables Software Engineers to generate user stories for their clients’ requests. We will come up with more such use cases in our upcoming blogs.

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Zalando Engineering

JUNE 30, 2021

This is the result of increased adoption within the company (100+ new applications were written in Kotlin in a year), positive feedback from engineers starting to use it, as well as creation of guidelines, coding standards, reference projects, and service templates by the Zalando Kotlin Guild.

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Christophe Blefari

MARCH 8, 2024

I mean, there is a big difference between podcast for instance and news blogging like I'm doing. Architecture I said it, while being a new feature to the blog this is as well an educational projet I can use to showcase technologies. The main part of the blog is just a bunch of Handlebars templates connected to Ghost Content API.

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Engineering at Meta

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

It powers Instagram’s backend and plays an important role in our configuration systems, as well as much of our AI work. On this episode of the Meta Tech Podcast , Meta engineer Pascal Hartig ( @passy ) is joined by Amethyst Reese, a production engineer at Meta, to discuss all things Python at Meta.

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Knowledge Hut

MARCH 29, 2024

When we studied an article published by The Pragmatic Engineer , it revealed that the company employs approximately 70,000 new people for tech roles across the globe each year. But before you target for a spot, isn’t it better to relate to the responsibilities of a software development engineer ? Who is a Software Engineer?

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Netflix Tech

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

By Abhinaya Shetty , Bharath Mummadisetty At Netflix, our Membership and Finance Data Engineering team harnesses diverse data related to plans, pricing, membership life cycle, and revenue to fuel analytics, power various dashboards, and make data-informed decisions. Our audits would detect this and alert the on-call data engineer (DE).

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Netflix Tech

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview Interview with Pallavi Phadnis This post is part of our “ Data Engineers of Netflix ” series, where our very own data engineers talk about their journeys to Data Engineering @ Netflix. Pallavi Phadnis is a Senior Software Engineer at Netflix.

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DoorDash Engineering

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Deciding whether to trigger in the frontend or backend Backend events typically are generated by internal services, while frontend events are created by the mobile app or web. This inflight data is considered as state in Flink and is managed in the RocksDB state backend. Use both frontend and backend data.

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Robinhood

MAY 25, 2023

Authored by: Max Rabiciuc, Staff Software Engineer Robinhood frontend engineers play a critical role in building user interfaces that are both intuitive and beautiful. The combination of making a change and releasing it was resulting in a weeks-long process involving multiple engineers just to make minor UI modifications.

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Uber Engineering

MARCH 2, 2023

Join us in this blog post exploring some of the innovative tools, services, and practices we have developed to promote sustainable usage of engineering resources. As a leader in tech, Uber is a major proponent of sustainability and reducing carbon emissions.

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Data Engineering Weekly

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Data Engineering Weekly Is Brought to You by RudderStack RudderStack provides data pipelines that make it easy to collect data from every application, website, and SaaS platform, then activate it in your warehouse and business tools. Hello Data Friends, Welcome to another edition of Data Engineering Weekly.

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Data Engineering Weekly

MARCH 26, 2023

Data Engineering Weekly readers get a 20% discount by applying Promo Code: DataWeekly20 Data Council website: [link] The Real-Time Analytic Summit is on April 25-26 in downtown San Francisco, CA. dbt: State of Analytics Engineering dbt publishes the state of analytical [data???🤔] 🤔] engineering.

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LinkedIn Engineering

MAY 9, 2023

The decision also set forth a number of engineering problems because the cache isn’t backed by a primary storage infrastructure. In this blog post we’ll discuss our decision to leverage Couchbase, the challenges that arose, and how we addressed each challenge in our final solution. The majority of profile requests are read.

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Engineering at Meta

OCTOBER 24, 2023

In our last blog post on automatic product deprecation , we talked about the complexities of product deprecations, and a solution Meta has built called the Systematic Code and Asset Removal Framework (SCARF). Template hooks for dynamically rendering pages in the Instagram Django backend and URI handler and routing.

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Zalando Engineering

JULY 10, 2023

Welcome back to our web platform blog series! We are excited now to reconnect and share with you some substantial enhancements we've made to the streaming and rendering architecture of our Rendering Engine framework. We'll skip how RE handles defining layouts from the backend for the time being.

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DoorDash Engineering

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Architecture Figure 1: The first iteration of our solution (MVP) followed this architecture: Mobile (iOS/Android) ⇒ WebView ⇒ Backend for Frontend (BFF) ⇒ Backend Service. The BFF is used to transform the request format from HTTP to gRPC to allow the backend service to parse. The backend service stores and serves the content.

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Pinterest Engineering

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Jeff Xiang | Software Engineer, Logging Platform Vahid Hashemian | Software Engineer, Logging Platform Jesus Zuniga | Software Engineer, Logging Platform At Pinterest, data is ingested and transported at petabyte scale every day, bringing inspiration for our users to create a life they love.

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Robinhood

MAY 15, 2023

Authored by: Max Rabiciuc, Staff Software Engineer Robinhood frontend engineers play a critical role in building user interfaces that are both intuitive and beautiful. The combination of making a change and releasing it was resulting in a weeks-long process involving multiple engineers just to make minor UI modifications.

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Workfall

MARCH 28, 2023

Reading Time: 7 minutes To handle CRUD, authorization, and business logic, backend developers frequently need to write several lines of code. This blog will demonstrate to you how Hasura and PostgreSQL can help you accelerate app development and easily launch backends. Go to ElephantSQL and create an account.

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Pinterest Engineering

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

We have published a detailed blog post of its modeling architecture. Therefore, we adopted a hybrid data logging approach, with which the data is logged through both the backend service and the frontend clients. To learn more about engineering at Pinterest, check out the rest of our Engineering Blog and visit our Pinterest Labs site.

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DoorDash Engineering

MARCH 7, 2023

While most engineering tooling at DoorDash is focused on making safe incremental improvements to existing systems, in part by testing in production (learn more about our end-to-end testing strategy ), this is not always the best approach when launching an entirely new business line. Backend microservice framework and language agnostic.

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Robinhood

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

In this blog, we explore the evolution of our in-house batch processing infrastructure and how it helps Robinhood work smarter. We empower our developers, data engineers, operations, and data scientists to build structured, repeatable, and reliable batch data pipelines securely and efficiently.

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Uber Engineering

JULY 26, 2016

The early architecture of Uber consisted of a monolithic backend application written in Python that used Postgres for data persistence.

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Big Data Tools

JUNE 8, 2022

I’ll offer my impressions of recent developments in the data engineering space and highlight new ideas from the wider community. News A lot of engineering is about learning new things and keeping a finger on the pulse of new technologies. Here’s what’s happening in the world of data engineering right now. version on GitHub.

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Big Data Tools

JUNE 8, 2022

I’ll offer my impressions of recent developments in the data engineering space and highlight new ideas from the wider community. News A lot of engineering is about learning new things and keeping a finger on the pulse of new technologies. Here’s what’s happening in the world of data engineering right now. version on GitHub.

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Zalando Engineering

JUNE 25, 2023

These intentions are identified by our backend systems with specific business domain rules, i.e. the Search backend will have different rules from the Product backend. As mentioned in other posts here in Zalando Engineering Blog, Zalando has many microservices, and even our Frontend’s architecture is based on micro frontends.

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Data Engineering Weekly

MARCH 24, 2023

Any business in the modern digital era can be considered a workflow engine. A business process or workflow engine is a software system that enables businesses to execute well-defined steps to complete a user’s intention. It could be either booking a taxi or ordering your lunch; everything is a workflow engine.

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Netflix Tech

JUNE 1, 2023

This tier extended existing infrastructure by adding new backend components and a new remote call to our ads partner on the playback path. Takeaways The above summarizes three months of hard work by a tiger team consisting of representatives from various backend teams and Netflix’s centralized SRE team.

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DoorDash Engineering

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

As an example of how we do so, we delve here into an engineering effort to maintain user privacy. Privacy engineering overview To facilitate deliveries, users must give us some personal information, including such things as names, addresses, and phone numbers, in a Drive API request. 6826 * β * A1) + (.2718 2718 * β * A2) + (.0428

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DoorDash Engineering

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Here we explain how we have streamlined caching through a Kotlin library, offering backend developers a fast, safe, and efficient way to introduce new caches. Subscribe for weekly updates The post How DoorDash Standardized and Improved Microservices Caching appeared first on DoorDash Engineering Blog.

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Workfall

MARCH 21, 2023

In this blog, we’ll explore: What is SurrealDB? It can also be used for backend-based applications such as Serverless and Jamstack. SurrealDB for Jamstack and Serverless Applications SurrealDB’s ability to function as both a database and a real-time collaborative API backend layer is one of its advantages. src/main.rs(1):

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Knowledge Hut

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

In this blog, I will explain the top 10 job roles you can choose per your interests and outline their salaries. It is essential to be clear about what aspect you want to master, although, since full-stack developers are trained in both front-end and backend, they’re generally in higher demand than the other two.

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Pinterest Engineering

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Each summer, Pinterest welcomes Software Engineering Pinterns who spend 12 weeks with us creating impact within our product and teams. We sat down with Sierra Lee, Software Engineering Pintern, to learn more about her second summer interning with the Pinterest team. Thanks for joining us, Sierra. Let’s start by getting to know you.

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Pinterest Engineering

MARCH 20, 2024

In this blog, we touch on: Technical design Key innovations Offline results Online results Technical Design Data Most Pins are associated with a landing page. It supercharges the backend of all the other landing pages signals’ development (e.g. Impact on engagement and monetization: Improve both engagement (e.g. Link Quality).

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