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Browse 94 real engineering write-ups by stack, technique and company. A topic gets its own page once at least 2 stories share it, so there are 105 topics today: 43 tech, 44 techniques and 18 companies. Numbers show how many stories each one has.
Tech & stack (43)
PostgreSQL 19Rust 15MySQL 11Kubernetes 10Go 9Kafka 9Java 5Redis 5Ruby on Rails 5AWS RDS 4Git 4Python 4RocksDB 4SQLite 4Vitess 4Cassandra 3Flink 3GPUs 3MongoDB 3Neki 3Object storage 3PgBouncer 3Amazon S3 2Azure 2Azure Blob Storage 2ClickHouse 2Cosmos DB 2Custom storage 2Debezium 2Elasticsearch 2Elixir 2Envoy 2LLMs 2Nginx 2Patroni 2PyTorch 2S3 2ScyllaDB 2Spark 2Spokes 2WebSockets 2Workers 2ZooKeeper 2
Techniques (44)
caching 10database migration 7connection pooling 6horizontal sharding 6multi-tenancy 6read replicas 6rewrite 6online migration 5query optimization 5storage/compute separation 5zero downtime 5fan-out 4load balancing 4load shedding 4replication 4sharding 4tiered storage 4benchmarking 3change data capture 3columnar storage 3distributed training 3partitioning 3queues 3rate limiting 3vertical partitioning 3workload isolation 3autoscaling 2capacity planning 2consistent hashing 2control plane separation 2cost optimization 2dual writes 2edge computing 2erasure coding 2hardware reliability 2indexing 2load testing 2logical replication 2networking 2request coalescing 2resharding 2shadow traffic 2staged rollout 2synchronous replication 2
Companies (18)
Datadog 9Meta 9Cloudflare 7Discord 6Shopify 6Figma 5GitHub 5OpenAI 5Dropbox 4Netflix 4Notion 4PlanetScale 4GitLab 3Slack 3Stripe 3Zalando 3Grab 2LinkedIn 2
Comparisons (11)
Cassandra vs ScyllaDB at scaleMongoDB vs Cassandra at scaleGo vs Rust for backend services at scaleEnvoy vs Nginx at scaleRedis vs MySQL at scaleClickHouse vs Postgres for analytics at scalePostgreSQL vs MySQL at scaleetcd vs SQLite for a control planeAurora vs RDS PostgresSharding vs partitioningRead replicas vs shardingAll comparisons →
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