This paper details the evolution of Google's Spanner, a globally-distributed database system, from a key-value store to a fully-fledged SQL... more

The article explores Change Data Capture (CDC), a method for tracking database changes, highlighting its advantages over traditional daily snapshots.... more

This research paper introduces DeepSeek-R1, a large language model enhanced for reasoning capabilities using reinforcement learning (RL). Two versions are... more

This Atlassian blog post details the migration of Jira Cloud's Issue Service from JSON to Protocol Buffers (Protobuf) to enhance... more

This research paper introduces Hyaline, a novel family of memory reclamation schemes for lock-free data structures in unmanaged C/C++ code.... more

This Atlassian blog post details Trello's migration from RabbitMQ to Kafka for its websocket architecture. RabbitMQ's unreliability during network partitions and... more

This podcast explores the field of reliability engineering, tracing its origins at Google with the development of Site Reliability Engineering... more

This podcast profiles Antithesis, a company developing a "multiverse debugger" for large, distributed systems. It traces the history of debugging... more

This podcast details the creation of Shopify's interactive Black Friday/Cyber Monday live dashboard, nicknamed "Live Globe". The 2024 version, built... more

This podcast examines the contrasting "wartime" and "peacetime" operating modes in tech companies, drawing on the author's experiences at Uber... more