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The article announces that the Cadence project has joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), highlighting its commitment to open-source development.
Uber Engineering
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This article discusses how Netflix built a resilient data platform using a Write-Ahead Log (WAL) to address data consistency, reliability, and operational efficiency challenges at scale.
The article discusses the implementation of a Policy Simulator at Uber to enhance the safety and determinism of Identity and Access Management (IAM) policy changes.
Avinash Srivenkatesh, Zi Wen, Zakir Akram
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This article details the challenges faced by Pinterest during the migration of its search infrastructure, Manas, to Kubernetes.
Pinterest Engineering
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This article discusses Pinterest's transition from a Hadoop-based platform to a Kubernetes-based data processing solution named Moka.
On April 16, 2025, Spotify experienced a significant outage affecting users worldwide due to a bug triggered by a change in Envoy Proxy filter order.
Spotify Engineering
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The article announces the general availability of the Apigee Extension Processor, a new capability that enhances Apigee's ability to manage and secure backend services and modern application archit...
Ishita Saxena, Sanjay Pujare
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The article provides insights into the Certified Backstage Associate (CBA) exam, a new certification offered by The Linux Foundation that validates skills in building and managing Backstage, an ope...
André Wanlin
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The article discusses Pinterest's adoption of TiDB as a replacement for HBase, detailing the motivations, selection methodology, and the journey of integrating TiDB into their infrastructure.
The article discusses the integration of Ray infrastructure at Pinterest, detailing the journey, challenges, and solutions implemented to optimize machine learning workflows.
Pinterest Engineering
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The article discusses advanced rollout techniques for stateful applications in Kubernetes, focusing on the development of the Bedrock Rollout Operator at Slack.
The article discusses Uber's efforts to improve load balancing across heterogeneous hardware, focusing on enhancing efficiency and CPU utilization for stateless services.
Pawel Krolikowski, Chien-Chih Liao, Ying Jiang
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The article discusses the complexities and challenges of automating deployments at Slack, particularly in a monolithic service environment.
Sean McIlroy
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Spotify has been awarded the Cloud Native Computing Foundation's Top End User Award for the second time at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in Chicago.
Dave Zolotusky
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This article discusses Netflix's implementation of a zero-configuration service mesh with on-demand cluster discovery, detailing the motivations behind adopting service mesh technology and the coll...
The article 'Traffic 101: Packets Mostly Flow' provides an in-depth look at how Slack processes billions of network requests daily through its edge network and AWS infrastructure.
Slack has migrated its critical user-facing services from a monolithic architecture to a cellular architecture over the past 1. 5 years.
The article discusses the challenges of connection churn in Zuul, a gateway service used by Netflix, and outlines the strategies implemented to mitigate this issue.
The article introduces OpenHouse, a control plane developed at LinkedIn for managing tables in open source data lakehouse deployments.
Sumedh Sakdeo
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The article discusses the architecture and implementation of Slack's real-time messaging system, detailing how messages are sent and received across millions of channels globally.
Sameera Thangudu
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This article discusses how Airbnb identified and resolved a performance issue related to propagation delay in their service mesh, AirMesh, which is built on Istio.
This article discusses the implementation of employee-facing mutual TLS (mTLS) at Pinterest, focusing on enhancing user experience during authentication processes.
The article discusses Uber's innovative approach to load balancing through real-time dynamic subsetting, which enhances the efficiency of their service mesh architecture.
Chien-Chih Liao, Pawel Krolikowski, Sangeeta Kundu
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The article discusses how Envoy Media Group leverages Cloudflare's Bot Management and machine learning to enhance their digital marketing efforts.
This article discusses the application of product thinking to Slack's internal compute platform, Bedrock, emphasizing the importance of understanding user needs and implementing features that enhan...
This article discusses the debugging process of a deadlock issue encountered during the upgrade of the PininfoService from Ubuntu 14 to Ubuntu 18.
Pinterest Engineering
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The article discusses the transition from using Squid as a forward proxy to implementing Envoy for managing egress traffic in the Rubix platform.
Palantir
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Spotify recently won the Cloud Native Computing Foundation's Top End User Award, recognizing its commitment to cloud native technologies and contributions to the open source community.
Dave Zolotusky
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The article discusses the implementation of client tracing at Slack to enhance the performance of mobile and desktop applications.
Justin Rushing
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The article celebrates the first anniversary of Backstage, Spotify's open-source developer portal, highlighting its rapid growth and commitment to the community.
Tyson Singer
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This article discusses Slack's migration of millions of concurrent WebSocket connections from HAProxy to Envoy Proxy.
The article 'Shadow Jobs' discusses how Slack enhances developer productivity by continuously testing pre-release versions of essential build tools through custom Continuous Integration (CI) jobs c...
Zac Sweers
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The article discusses how to minimize deep learning inference latency using NVIDIA's Multi-Instance GPU (MIG) technology on the A100 GPU.
Davide Onofrio
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The article announces the acceptance of Backstage, Spotify's open source developer portal, into the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Sandbox.
Spotify Engineering
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This article discusses the implementation of gRPC over HTTP/3, emphasizing the performance improvements offered by the QUIC transport protocol.
Jean-Marie Joly
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The article provides an in-depth analysis of a significant outage experienced by Slack on May 12, 2020, detailing the technical issues that led to the incident.
The article discusses Uber's implementation of multi-tenancy within its microservice architecture, highlighting its benefits for stability, modularity, and developer velocity.
The Networking @Scale Boston 2019 conference brought together engineers from major tech companies to discuss the challenges and solutions for reliable networking at scale.
The article discusses Pinterest's transition from a Blue-Green deployment model to a Rolling deployment model for their web application.
The article discusses how to proxy gRPC-Web directly in a Go server without using Envoy, focusing on a simple setup for development.
The article discusses how SafetyCulture utilizes Envoy and Lua for edge routing, focusing on routing traffic based on application criteria and user characteristics.
This article is the second part of SafetyCulture's journey to implementing Kubernetes on Amazon EKS.
Tim Curtin
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In this article, the authors discuss resilience engineering practices integrated into Airbnb's service platform, which supports their service-oriented architecture.
The Systems @Scale 2018 conference hosted by Facebook brought together engineers from various companies to discuss managing large-scale information systems.
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