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Yik Yak Configuration and Experiment System

In this article we’ll discuss the Yik Yak client and backend configuration and experiment system. This is part of a series intended to describe the system components we built to implement Yik Yak and share what worked well and what didn’t. By sharing our…

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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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Elasticache for Redis — Not a Datastore

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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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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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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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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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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Test it Now or Regret It Later…

In this blog post we will talk about testing. I know, Real Engineers can prove that their code is…

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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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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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