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Browse 73 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 87 topics today: 35 tech, 37 techniques and 15 companies. Numbers show how many stories each one has.
Tech & stack (35)
PostgreSQL 14Rust 11MySQL 10Go 7Kafka 7Ruby on Rails 5AWS RDS 4Java 4Kubernetes 4Python 4SQLite 4Vitess 4Cassandra 3GPUs 3MongoDB 3PgBouncer 3Redis 3RocksDB 3Amazon S3 2Azure 2Azure Blob Storage 2ClickHouse 2Cosmos DB 2Custom storage 2Elasticsearch 2Elixir 2Envoy 2Git 2Nginx 2Object storage 2PyTorch 2ScyllaDB 2Spokes 2WebSockets 2ZooKeeper 2
Techniques (37)
caching 8database migration 7horizontal sharding 6read replicas 6rewrite 6connection pooling 5multi-tenancy 5online migration 5fan-out 4load balancing 4load shedding 4query optimization 4replication 4sharding 4zero downtime 4benchmarking 3change data capture 3columnar storage 3distributed training 3partitioning 3queues 3rate limiting 3tiered storage 3vertical partitioning 3capacity planning 2consistent hashing 2control plane separation 2cost optimization 2dual writes 2edge computing 2erasure coding 2hardware reliability 2indexing 2load testing 2networking 2storage/compute separation 2workload isolation 2
Companies (15)
Meta 7Datadog 6Discord 6Shopify 6Cloudflare 5GitHub 5Dropbox 4Figma 4Notion 4OpenAI 3Slack 3Stripe 3GitLab 2LinkedIn 2PlanetScale 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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