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6 Weeks of Claude Code

It is wild to think that it has been only a handful of weeks. Claude Code has considerably changed my relationship to writing and maintaining code at scale. I still write code at the same level of quality, but I feel like I have a new freedom of expression which is hard to fully articulate. Claude Code has decoupled myself from writing every line of code, I still consider myself fully responsible for everything I ship to Puzzmo, but the ability to instantly create a whole scene instead of going line by line, word by word is incredibly powerful.
Saved on: 2025-08-03

Getting to Two Million Users as a One Woman Dev Team

The story of the The StoryGraph with graphs
Saved on: 2024-12-18

Off the Beaten Path to Upgrade Symfony 2.8 to 7.2 | Tomas Votruba

There are two types of upgrades. One follows only `UPGRADE.md` files on every release, replacing what has been removed with new alternatives. It works, and we could say that the codebase will be "up-to-date." The other upgrade doesn't stop at the required minimum but **makes use of all modern features the framework provides**. It will be faster, easier to understand, and easier to upgrade to the next version. I [wrote a post](/blog/two-kinds-of-legacy-code-upgrade) that explains why the latter is better. There are no sources about Symfony upgrades spanning multiple major versions—time to fix that.
Saved on: 2024-12-18

Making AWS News stupid fast with smart caching

As I’m typing this, Re:Invent 2024 is only weeks away. In anticipation of AWS News’ busiest period of the year, I redesigned the API access patterns to support very efficient caching. This re…
Saved on: 2024-12-04

Netflix’s Distributed Counter Abstraction

In our previous blog post, we introduced Netflix’s TimeSeries Abstraction, a distributed service designed to store and query large volumes of temporal event data with low millisecond latencies…
Saved on: 2024-11-14

0 → 1, Shipping Threads in 5 Months

Zahan Malkani shares how they built a microblogging service to compete with Twitter with a small team that shipped a new social network in a few months.
Saved on: 2024-10-15

Goodbye integers. Hello UUIDs!

Exploring the tradeoffs of different database indexes; from sequential integers, randomly generated UUIDs, to time-based identifiers and the latest & greatest UUIDv7
Saved on: 2023-10-02

300ms Faster: Reducing Wikipedia's Total Blocking Time

How two simple steps improved the responsiveness of Wikipedia's mobile site
Saved on: 2023-05-30

Entertainment

We create and provide access to world-class entertainment through Amazon Originals, Prime Video, Audible, Amazon Games, Twitch, Amazon Music, Prime Gaming, and more. Amazon’s digital entertainment products enable customers to access the latest apps and games, stream or download movies, TV shows,…
Saved on: 2023-05-04

Refactoring Legacy Code with the Strangler Fig Pattern

There are strategies for reducing the size and responsibilities of large objects. Here’s one that worked for us at Shopify, an all-in-one commerce platform supporting over 1M merchants across the globe.
Saved on: 2023-04-20

Design notes on the 2023 Wikipedia redesign

No one fights harder for your rights
Saved on: 2023-03-16

How Discord Stores Trillions of Messages

Engineer Bo Ingram shares insight into how Discord shoulders its traffic and provides a platform for our users to communicate.
Saved on: 2023-03-08

From 15,000 database connections to under 100: DigitalOcean's tale of tech debt | DigitalOcean

Helping millions of developers easily build, test, manage, and scale applications of any size - faster than ever before.
Saved on: 2020-01-15

Děláš v PHP? Jsi jedním z nás

Otevřené místo pro všechny PHP programátory
Saved on: 2019-04-23

How Zapier Reached $35M ARR With This SaaS SEO Strategy

Learn from the web’s top SEO and CRO consultant. Ryan Berg has been a specialist in SEO and CRO for 25 years.
Saved on: 2018-11-15

Building a Shop with Sub-Second Page Loads: Lessons Learned

TV-Shows like “Shark Tank” (US), “Dragons’ Den” (UK) or “Die Höhle der Löwen (DHDL)” (GER) offer young startups a one-time opportunity to pitch their products to business magnates in front of a huge…
Saved on: 2016-10-24

What I Wish I Had Known Before Scaling Uber to 1000 Services • Matt Ranney • GOTO 2016

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Chicago 2016. #gotocon #gotochgohttp://gotochgo.comMatt Ranney - Chief Systems Architect at Uber, Co-founder of VoxerA...
Saved on: 2016-09-28

How we made the RioRun progressive web app | Info | The Guardian

Service workers, manifest files and HTTPS: what we learned making the Guardian’s first PWA
Saved on: 2016-08-31

Mapping the World of Music Using Machine Learning: Part 1 — iHeartRadio Tec

In June 2016 Ravi Mody and Tim Schmeier gave a presentation at the NYC Machine Learning meetup to discuss their work on the data science team at iHeartRadio. This is the first in a three part article…
Saved on: 2016-08-11

The Illusion Of Life: An SVG Animation Case Study – Smashing Magazine

How far can we push SVG animation? At the time, designer Chris Halaska and Michael Ngo were colleagues working on an illustration-heavy campaign website. While aesthetically pleasing, the designs lacked the required “oomph” that all creatives search for. Their idea was to create a data-driven process that enables designers to quickly prototype animations from static illustrations. In this article, Michael will take a look at how you can use SVGs to create seemingly complex animations from simple illustrations.
Saved on: 2016-07-27

How Does Google do Planet-Scale Engineering for a Planet-Scale Infrastructu

How does Google keep all its services up and running? They almost never seem to fail. If you've ever wondered we get a wonderful peek behind the curtain in a talk given at GCP NEXT 2016 by Melissa Binde, Director, Storage SRE at Google: How Google Does Planet-Scale Engineering for Planet-Scale Infrastructure. Melissa's talk is short, but it's packed with wisdom and delivered in a no nonsense style that makes you think if your service is down Melissa is definitely the kind of person you want on
Saved on: 2016-07-19

We Made the Whole Company “Serverless” - CloudSploit - Medium

As a technology company, the concept of not running or managing any servers may seem completely foreign at first. For network and operations professionals, who have built their entire careers around…
Saved on: 2016-07-08

Twilio Segment Blog

  
Saved on: 2016-06-16

CSS at BBC Sport (Part 1) — Medium

I promised I’d write a blog with more details so here goes. When I started writing this I realised there was lot to say so I’m going to split this two blog posts which covers how we’re approaching…
Saved on: 2016-06-13

Boosting Sales With Machine Learning — Xeneta — Medium

In this blog post I’ll explain how we’re making our sales process at Xeneta more effective by training a machine learning algorithm to predict the quality of our leads based upon their company…
Saved on: 2016-06-08

Running by Gyroscope - Gyroscope

A new & improved Gyroscope App is now available in the App Store. This blog post is about our previous & now discontinued running app. We recently released a new experimental iPhone app, called…
Saved on: 2015-11-15

How We Use AWS Lambda for Rapidly Intensifying Workloads · CloudSploit | Bl

Aqua Security blogs in the subject of CSPM
Saved on: 2015-09-17

BBC Blogs - INTERNET BLOG - How we built the new BBC Homepage

The new BBC mobile Homepage is a flexible ‘taster menu’ of the BBC's website.
Saved on: 2015-02-17

The Netflix Tech Blog: Netflix Likes React

Facebook’s React library
Saved on: 2015-01-28
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