How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engineers(engineercodex.substack.com)

274 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 146 comments

Meta reveals serverless platform processing trillions of function calls a day(engineercodex.substack.com)

45 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 38 comments

Apple built iCloud to store billions of databases(read.engineerscodex.com)

441 points by gempir 2 years ago | 170 comments

Engineer's Codex newsletter post explaining how Apple uses Cassandra and FoundationDB to power CloudKit and store billions of iCloud databases.

A study of Google's code review tooling (Critique)(engineercodex.substack.com)

249 points by vinnyglennon 2 years ago | 248 comments

100k TPS over a billion rows: the unreasonable effectiveness of SQLite(andersmurphy.com)

344 points by speckx 10 months ago | 124 comments

Blog post by Anders Murphy benchmarking SQLite at 100k transactions per second over a billion rows, arguing its embedded single-writer design helps it scale.

Futexes in TLA+(surfingcomplexity.blog)

15 points by ingve 2 years ago | 0 comments