Top stories published by Yik Yak Engineering in 2017

Redis is a popular in-memory data structure store that can be used as a datastore, cache and message broker. There are lots of posts about companies successfully using Redis as an integral part of their service. For example, this post gives a good overview of…

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Miguel Mendez in Yik Yak Engineering

Feb 24, 2017

Migration to Google Cloud Platform — Overview

In this post we will give an overview of the migration of our platform from AWS to GCP as well as the new systems which were built to support it. Subsequent posts will drill down into some of these new systems.

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Miguel Mendez in Yik Yak Engineering

Mar 2, 2017

Migration to Google Cloud Platform — gRPC & grpc-gateway

In our previous blog post we gave an overview of our migration to Google Cloud Platform from Amazon Web Services. In this post we will drill down into the role that gRPC and grpc-gateway played in that migration and share some…

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Miguel Mendez in Yik Yak Engineering

Jan 24, 2017

AWS Code Deploy & Auto Scaling — Is there something better?

In this post we will share our experiences using AWS Code Deploy and AWS Auto Scaling and suggest something that might be better.

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Miguel Mendez in Yik Yak Engineering

Jan 24, 2017

Why we moved to Go (Golang)…

In this post we will discuss why we made the decision to adopt Go (aka golang) as the standard programming…

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Miguel Mendez in Yik Yak Engineering

Jan 10, 2017

DynamoDB — What you should know…

DynamoDB has a lot of desirable traits. It is a NoSQL store with the usual horizontally scalable attributes. You provision and pay for the capacity that your use case demands. You can optimize your capacity dollars through the judicious use of the less expensive…

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Miguel Mendez in Yik Yak Engineering

Mar 13, 2017

Migration to Google Cloud Platform — New Geostore

Yik Yak’s primary use case is to quickly return the most recent N messages posted, relative to a user’s current location, as bounded by either a circle of arbitrary radius or an arbitrary polygon. In this post we discuss how we built a geostore…

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Eric Mayers in Yik Yak Engineering

Mar 15, 2017

Yik Yak Feed System Architecture (Golang)

Background

At its core, Yik Yak is a service where users can create posts at their location and ask “What are people saying near me”? It’s the responsibility of the Feed Service to answer that question and return a set of content…

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Steve Brunton in Yik Yak Engineering

Mar 24, 2017

Taming Kubernetes Deployments with Lemmy

As we worked on proving the worth of building and deploying applications in Docker with an overall endgame of utilizing Kubernetes, we needed to provide the ability for developers to configure and deploy their applications into various environments…

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Eric Mayers in Yik Yak Engineering

Feb 15, 2017

Three Golden Testing Patterns in Go

Background

At Yik Yak we built an entirely new stack in Go quickly. It was here that I wrote my first line of Go and was introduced to several testing patterns new to me, including table-drive tests and generated goldens which I really…

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