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How a Single Engineer used Varnish to Build Tesla a Private CDN
At a recent Varnish Summit in San Francisco Vitaliy Kushnerov, principal IT infrastructure architect at Tesla Motors and Rajasekar Jegannathan, a Tesla Web platform architect talked about how they...
View ArticleAir Force Scrambles to Recover 100,000 Lost Data Files
A corrupt database wiped out 12 years worth of Air Force files, permanently destroying records on 100,000 Inspector General investigations dating back to 2004. But after weeks of worry, and...
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WePay on Kubernetes: ‘It Changed Our Business’
We hear a lot about how well-executed container orchestration can streamline the IT and business processes. At the Google Cloud Platform conference in March, we saw success in action through a...
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Lessons Learned From Building a LinkedIn App in Six Months
Yogesh Mandawewala Yogesh Mandawewala is a senior front-end software engineer for LinkedIn Sales Solutions. He grew up in Mumbai and came to the US in Fall 2009 to pursue a Masters degree in computer...
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Off-The-Shelf Hacker: American Manufacturing Gets a Boost with Maker Ingenuity
It’s a classic scene, two guys sitting on the porch at early evening, discussing world affairs. Rob Concepcion lights up his stogie and takes a swig of his coffee. It’s right after the 4th of July...
View ArticleCase Study: Elasticsearch Powers Giant Oak’s Fight Against Organized Crime
If software is eating the world, as so often is said, data also is clamping down on crime. The software of Arlington, Va.-based Giant Oak focuses data on problems such as human trafficking and well as...
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Why I Left Computer Science to Begin a Career in Software Development
Nick McCrory A former computer science student at Louisiana State University, Nick McCrory has worked with systems, networking, and software since he was twelve years old. In 2015, Nick journeyed to...
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What Spotify Learned From the Flop of its App Store
Platforms may always win, so the saying goes, but this does not mean all platforms will win. Music service Spotify launched a music-focused app store in 2011 that failed to capture the public interest,...
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Pinterest Uses Varnish VCL to Manage 50 Billion Pins a Month
“Oh for Vulcan’s sake, you mean I have to learn ANOTHER proprietary language?” I hear you ask. For Varnish engineers, this question was given deep consideration, and they concluded that yes, yes we...
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How To Succeed at Failure with Microservices
The willingness to fail fast in the open is one of the tenets of today’s new distributed software paradigm. Moving from a monolith to a microservices architecture — often a key task in building a...
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Off-The-Shelf Hacker: This Story was Composed on a $9 Linux Computer
We’ve all heard the phrase “Eating your own dog food.” The idea behind the saying is that you actually use the products and services that you build. It’s great advice for hardware, software and...
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Agile for Bankers: How to Fail Fast and Iterate Rapidly in a Regulated World
The world of agile software development is about experimentation and innovation. But how do you, a la Spotify, learn to fail faster but this time in a regulated environment? How can you iterate rapidly...
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Twitter’s IT Chargeback System Sets the Stage for End-to-End Service...
Twitter is finding profit in trusting in the old reporter adage, “follow the money.” Having moved to a microservices-based service architecture, the company has set up a chargeback system that lets the...
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How Node.js Allows Rent the Runway to Stay Fashionable — and Nimble
The e-commerce fashion startup Rent the Runway comes with a simple but revolutionary premise: browse its selection of high-fashion luxury clothing, pick out an outfit, and the company ships it to you....
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Theranos: A House of Cards That Says So Much About Silicon Valley
This year has witnessed the spectacular fall from grace for the former Silicon Valley darling Theranos, the Palo Alto-based blood-testing startup, and its high-powered millennial co-founder, Elizabeth...
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GitHub Dumps REST Calls for Facebook’s GraphQL
` Hoping to streamline the remote querying services of its site, GitHub is moving its API (application programming interface) from REST calls to Facebook’s GraphQL API. In the company’s recent user...
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How Bustle Uses a Serverless Architecture to Manage 52 Million Monthly Visitors
Established tech companies are starting to look at migrating their production environments to serverless architectures. Case in point: Bustle. This media company currently publishes two websites —...
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Holiday Season Spurs Warehouse Robot War between Amazon and Walmart
The next two months may see the biggest online shopping spree in human history — and Amazon is ready. It’s been building out its robot-enabled warehouses in preparation for this year’s holiday shopping...
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Looking at How to Look at Kubernetes
A few weeks ago we had a chance to catch up on Kubernetes buzz with Ross Kukulinski. When he is not managing NodeSource’s commercial Node.js offering, Ross helps his consulting clients implement...
View ArticleSimilarWeb’s Cloud Infrastructure for Large-Scale Data Analysis
We often hear it said that every company is becoming a software company. That every company is now a tech company. But with microservices and API-based architectures exposing data assets, and with the...
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