WRITING
Essays on AI, fintech, engineering, and building things — thinking out loud.
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Scaling GraphQL at Netflix
Tejas Shikhare of Netflix on how the company scaled GraphQL adoption through federated architecture and collaborative schema-design tooling.
OCTOBER 29, 2022
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Leveraging Determinism
Frank Yu of Coinbase on leveraging determinism to build financial exchanges — make important logic deterministic, then replay it anywhere for efficiency.
OCTOBER 28, 2022
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Honeycomb Goes Serverless
Jessica Kerr of Honeycomb on leveraging AWS Lambda to deliver sub-linear query performance for their observability platform.
OCTOBER 27, 2022
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API Evolution without Versioning
Brandon Byars of ThoughtWorks on six API evolution patterns that let you avoid versioning by prioritizing the consumer's perspective and forward compatibility.
OCTOBER 25, 2022
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The End of SoundCloud's Strangler
SoundCloud completed an eight-year migration from a monolith to a fully-fledged Backend-for-Frontend architecture using the Strangler pattern.
MAY 2, 2022
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Why Do I Blog/Write?
On joining InfoQ's editorial team — and the three reasons I write: the joy of sharing, building a personal identity, and professional growth.
APRIL 2, 2022
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Netflix's RENO
Netflix built RENO, its Rapid Event Notification System, to deliver a consistent experience across platforms with a priority-based push-and-pull model.
MARCH 15, 2022
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Cloudflare's API Traffic Report
Cloudflare's annual Landscape of API Traffic report finds API traffic grew faster than any other traffic type in 2021, reaching 54% of measured traffic.
MARCH 3, 2022
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PipelineDP for Python
Google and OpenMined released PipelineDP, an open-source library for applying differentially private aggregations to large datasets via batch processing.
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
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Toby's recovery from COVID burnout
A short story about burnout during COVID — and the support system, and a pair of skis, that brought Toby back.
JANUARY 30, 2022
WRITING
Essays on AI, fintech, engineering, and building things — thinking out loud.
Writing Elsewhere
Pieces I wrote as an editor at InfoQ and for the Forbes Technology Council.