Big Tech Digest #5
2023-07-27: Optimizing Data Access at Airbnb, Real-time Ads Personalisation at Etsy, Working With Time Series data at Pinterest, The Great Migration At Wix, and more!
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// 📫 Engineering blogs digest
Recent, selectively picked blog posts from tech companies’ engineering blogs.
[Airbnb] Riverbed: Optimizing Data Access at Airbnb’s Scale gives an overview of Airbnb’s Data Framework for faster and more reliable read-heavy workloads by Amre Shakim
[Meta] Introducing Llama 2, which is now available for free for research and commercial use
[Expedia] The Importance of Being a Code Reviewer presents a framework for giving feedback to others’ code by Carlo Sales
[Wix] The Great Migration - How We Migrated All of Our Premium Subscriptions shares a story of a large and challenging migration of “bread and butter” paying customers by Gavin Rifkind
[Pinterest] Analyzing Time Series for Pinterest Observability covers the background of time series at Pinterest, the goals of designing an expressive time series language along with examples by Brian Overstreet and Humsheen Geo
[InfoQ] DevOps and Cloud InfoQ Trends Report – July 2023 by Steef-Jan Wiggers and Daniel Bryant
[Instacart] How Instacart Modernized the Prediction of Real Time Availability for Hundreds of Millions of Items While Saving Costs by Jack He
[Etsy] Leveraging Real-Time User Actions to Personalize Etsy Ads by Alaa Awad and Denisa Roberts
[Pinterest] Securely Scaling Big Data Access Controls At Pinterest by Soam Acharya and Keith Regier
// ⭐️ Misc
a.k.a. the nerd section 🧑💻!
Hashing by Sam Rose is an animated rookie guide to hashing. An absolute must-read.
Advanced Python Mastery is an exercise-driven course on Advanced Python Programming that was battle-tested several hundred times on the corporate-training circuit for more than a decade and is now available for free by David Beazley, the author of the Python Cookbook and Python Distilled
Signals make Angular MUCH easier by Mike Pearson
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