Engineering Brew — Issue #23

Hey all,

I have been writing / curating engineering blogs for more a year now. Take a look and see if this interests you. It usually has a variety of developer written posts from around the world. Posts are about their wins, losses, post-mortem and some show off :)

Let’s dig into this issue. Share your thoughts in comments or on Twitter (https://twitter.com/engineeringbrew)

- Natwar

Failing Forward — How We Grow from Incidents : Spotify Engineering — engineering.atspotify.com
Spotify’s official technology blog

The importance of a software engineering perspective in creating an MVP — Moove It — blog.moove-it.com
One of Moove It’s Technical Architects discusses the important of software engineering when creating a minimum viable product (MVP).

Third Time’s the Charm: Deprecating KAWS — Artsy Engineering — artsy.github.io
How do you tell when it’s time to deprecate a system? If something mostly works OK, is it worth spending time and effort replacing its functionalit…

Evolution of ML Fact Store. by Vivek Kaushal | by Netflix Technology Blog | Apr, 2022 | Netflix TechBlog — netflixtechblog.com
At Netflix, we aim to provide recommendations that match our members’ interests. To achieve this, we rely on Machine Learning (ML) algorithms. ML algorithms can be only as good as the data that we…

DDoS Attack Trends for 2022 Q1 — blog.cloudflare.com
Welcome to our first DDoS report of 2022, and the ninth in total so far. This report includes new data points and insights both in the application-layer and network-layer sections — as observed across the global Cloudflare network between January and March 2022.

An update on recent service disruptions | The GitHub Blog — github.blog
Over the past few weeks, we have experienced multiple incidents due to the health of our database. We wanted to share what we know about these incidents while our team continues to address them.

How We Fixed the Dependency Confusion Vulnerability in Over 600 Ruby Applications — shopifyengineering.myshopify.com
How Shopify solved the dependency confusion vulnerability in over 600 Ruby applications and created tailored large-scale migration tooling to make it easier.

Building a Marketing Engineering Platform using Next.js, Cloudflare, and Contentful — doordash.engineering
Learn how we built a multi-tenant website platform with internationalization, analytics, shared components, and more…