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database sharding

Sep 6, 2026

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5 min read

Database Sharding: What They Don't Teach You

Cross shard joins, unique constraints, and the shard key you cannot undo cheaply.

Job Openings

#10 Top Tech Jobs: Stripe, Airbnb, Databricks...

Sep 3, 2026

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1 min read

#10 Top Tech Jobs: Stripe, Airbnb, Databricks...

6 India and 6 Remote roles: Stripe, Airbnb, Databricks and more

write ahead log

Aug 31, 2026

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5 min read

Write-Ahead Logs Explained: How Databases Survive Crashes

Your commit is durable before your table is, and that is on purpose

Nvidia in Talks to Buy Hugging Face 💰, GLM-5.3 Matches Opus 4.8 🤖, Cloudflare Saves 100TB DNS Memory 🚀

Aug 30, 2026

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4 min read

Nvidia in Talks to Buy Hugging Face 💰, GLM-5.3 Matches Opus 4.8 🤖, Cloudflare Saves 100TB DNS Memory 🚀

Job Openings

#9 Top Tech Jobs: Coinbase, DevRev, Sarvam AI ..

Aug 29, 2026

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1 min read

#9 Top Tech Jobs: Coinbase, DevRev, Sarvam AI ..

6 India + 6 Remote : Coinbase, DevRev, Sarvam AI & more

interview preparation

Aug 27, 2026

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6 min read

Google India Salary Breakdown

Every pay component at L3, L4 and L5, plus the six point rating scale that decides which level you land on.

coding interviews

10 Coding Interview Habits That Get You a Strong Hire

Aug 26, 2026

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5 min read

10 Coding Interview Habits That Get You a Strong Hire

There is one point in this breakdown almost nobody talks about. It's at the end.

Anthropic Ships Project Parka 🎙️, Poolside $6B Nvidia Deal 💰, Mistral Agentic Search Hits 86% FinanceBench 🔍

Aug 24, 2026

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4 min read

Anthropic Ships Project Parka 🎙️, Poolside $6B Nvidia Deal 💰, Mistral Agentic Search Hits 86% FinanceBench 🔍

Anthropic's meeting bot assigns your action items to Claude agents automatically.

websockets

Aug 22, 2026

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6 min read

gRPC vs WebSockets vs SSE: Pick the Right Protocol

How Netflix, Slack, and Discord chose their real time protocols

RAG

Embeddings vs Fine-Tuning: Which Costs Less?

Aug 21, 2026

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6 min read

Embeddings vs Fine-Tuning: Which Costs Less?

One approach costs $10. The other costs $50,000. Here's when each one wins.

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AI Engineering

Aug 21, 2026

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6 min read

Embeddings vs Fine-Tuning: Which Costs Less?

One approach costs $10. The other costs $50,000. Here's when each one wins.

AI Engineering

API Gateway vs Load Balancer: What's the Actual Difference?

Jul 5, 2026

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5 min read

API Gateway vs Load Balancer: What's the Actual Difference?

Traffic distribution vs traffic management, and when you need both.

AI Engineering

6 Deployment Strategies Every Engineer Should Know

Jul 4, 2026

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5 min read

6 Deployment Strategies Every Engineer Should Know

Most teams use only one. The best teams combine three.

AI Engineering

How Spotify Uses AI Agents to Rewrite Its Entire Codebase

Jul 1, 2026

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5 min read

How Spotify Uses AI Agents to Rewrite Its Entire Codebase

Inside the 3 agent pipeline that handles code migrations at scale

AI Engineering

How Discord Handles 40 Billion Messages Per Day

Jun 29, 2026

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5 min read

How Discord Handles 40 Billion Messages Per Day

They cut database nodes by 60% and made reads 8x faster.

AI Engineering

Jun 27, 2026

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6 min read

Vector Databases Compared

Performance benchmarks, cost traps, and a decision tree for picking the right one

Grind Engineer

Database Sharding: What They Don't Teach You

#10 Top Tech Jobs: Stripe, Airbnb, Databricks...

Write-Ahead Logs Explained: How Databases Survive Crashes

Nvidia in Talks to Buy Hugging Face 💰, GLM-5.3 Matches Opus 4.8 🤖, Cloudflare Saves 100TB DNS Memory 🚀

#9 Top Tech Jobs: Coinbase, DevRev, Sarvam AI ..

Google India Salary Breakdown

10 Coding Interview Habits That Get You a Strong Hire

Anthropic Ships Project Parka 🎙️, Poolside $6B Nvidia Deal 💰, Mistral Agentic Search Hits 86% FinanceBench 🔍

gRPC vs WebSockets vs SSE: Pick the Right Protocol

Embeddings vs Fine-Tuning: Which Costs Less?

Featured Posts

Embeddings vs Fine-Tuning: Which Costs Less?

API Gateway vs Load Balancer: What's the Actual Difference?

6 Deployment Strategies Every Engineer Should Know

How Spotify Uses AI Agents to Rewrite Its Entire Codebase

How Discord Handles 40 Billion Messages Per Day

Vector Databases Compared

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