System Architecture

Introduction As part of Uber engineering’s wide efforts to reach profitability, recently our team was focused on reducing cost of compute capacity by improving efficiency. Some of the most impactful work was around GOGC optimization. In this blog we want to share our experience with a highly effective, low-risk, large-scale, semi-automated Go GC tuning mechanism. Uber’s tech stack is composed of thousands of microservices, backed by a cloud-native, scheduler-based infrastructure. Most of these services are written in Go. Our team, Maps Production Engineering, has previously played an instrumental role in significantly improving the efficiency of multiple Java services by tuning

Understanding a common pattern of entity models evolve, and why the process works that way.

Sustainable web design is an approach to designing digital products and services that puts people and planet first.

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More than three decades ago a Stanford professor proposed a uniform way of expressing your odds of dying from a specific cause: the micromort. It’s time it went mainstream.

A deep dive into the futex system call and how it is used to process synchronization functions.

Examples of Postgres constraints using a schema and data requirements for a reservation system.

There's the Heroku-style PaaS, easy to use, but limited. Kubernetes offers endless possibilities with complexity. What if we could get the best of both?

The world’s best companies – from startups to the Fortune 10 – trust Tines with their mission-critical security workflows.

Federated software: from many, one

Before Amazon caught my eye, I found enjoyment in visiting brick-and-mortar technology retailers to check out new and exciting products. One retailer I visited more than others was Best Buy. Around that time, I was asked if I would be interested in signing up for a Best Buy rewards card during the c...

You're worried that adding if/else statements for feature flags might make your code confusing. Not necessarily! This article explains.

Although built for Linux, eBPF is finding a second home in Microsoft Windows for networking, observability and security.

This article examines the use of cookies vs. tokens for authentication, comparing the pros and cons of each method, so that you can determine which is best for your project.

There is no question that that the combination of Nvidia and Arm Holdings would have been a powerful one in the datacenter. This is something that we have

Extension for Visual Studio Code - The AI powered documentation writer

Over the years, I've learned a few things when it comes to automation, not so much related to coding but general tips and methods that I've found helpful when building out successful network automation projects. Here they are: Workflow When it comes to automating a manual process, a good approach

This article will cover the basics of the object modeling. Object models refer to a visual representation of software or systems' objects, attributes, actions, and relationships.

A few notes on a small program I'd created to read a movie file, divide it up into constituent shots, and detect which shots contain NSFW content...

Learn how to Turbo-Stream ViewComponents by building a message board.

Things will never be the same again after the dust settles. And yes, I’m talking about Linux. As I write this, most of the world is in lockdown due to COVID-19. It’s hard to say how things will look when this is over (it will be over, right?), but one thing is for sure: the…

Discover how to define queuing theory, how it started, why it is important & how it can be applied to real-life situations.