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Grab Redesigns Counter Service Storage for 50% Lower P99 Latency
Grab migrated its high-volume Counter Service from a wide column database to Aerospike using storage abstraction, shadow traffic, data parity validation, and gradual traffic migration. The redesigned data model…
Presentation: The Reinvention of the Dev Team
Hannah Foxwell shares how the surge of agentic coding forces engineering leaders to rethink team dynamics. She discusses three key anchors for navigating AI-driven velocity: building software worth building,…
Article: Building a Session-Ordered Kafka Pipeline in Go
The article describes a custom implementation that provides a session-level ordering on top of Apache Kafka partitions, supporting strict message ordering across 1000s of independent channels. The solution required…
Cloudflare Uses an AI Harness to Probe and Harden its WAF
Cloudflare placed frontier AI models inside a controlled testing harness to probe its Web Application Firewall (WAF), using blocked attacks as starting points for models to generate and refine new variations. By Matt…
Spanner Omni Reaches GA, Replacing Google's Atomic Clocks and File System with Software
Google has made Spanner Omni generally available, running its distributed SQL database on-premises, across clouds or on a laptop. Doing so meant replacing Colossus with a Colossus-like abstraction layer and TrueTime…