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Yik Yak Engineering
Yik Yak Engineering
Share some of the lessons learned as we evolved Yik Yak from early-stage startup code running in Amazon Web Services to an eventual incremental rewrite, re-architecture, and live-migration to Google Cloud Platform.
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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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Moving a platform into Kubernetes :

Previously we discussed auto scaling within AWS and programming language selection for a re-platforming of the Yik Yak backend. These were precursors to discussions of moving from platform services being deployed on individual EC2 instances and instead being deployed…

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Intro to Re-engineering the Yak

The goal of this blog series is to share some of the lessons learned as we evolved Yik Yak from early-stage startup code running in Amazon Web Services to an eventual incremental rewrite, re-architecture, and live-migration to Google Cloud Platform. By sharing our journey…

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