Tech Solution Deep Dives

Aug 2021: Beyond ‘hello world’ and technology intro material, hearing about experiences from others in the real world can be a great way of really learning what tech is capable of - and where it falters.

Over the years some of the articles I’ve enjoyed most have been tech “deep dives”. Teams or individuals telling a story: we did a thing, here’s how we did it, here are a few of the fun adventures had along the way.

What worked well - and what didn’t.

I’ve started a list here of those I’ve enjoyed recently. I’ll add to this from time to time, as and when I find particularly memorable new ones on Hacker News basically.

Added Nov 2021:

https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/infrastructure/2021/processing-billions-of-events-in-real-time-at-twitter-

https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/scaling-kafka-observability-pipelines/

Added Aug 2021:

https://www.theguardian.com/info/2018/nov/30/bye-bye-mongo-hello-postgres

https://blog.discord.com/how-discord-stores-billions-of-messages-7fa6ec7ee4c7

https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/internet/entries/8673fe2a-e876-45fc-9a5f-203c049c9f9c (“Moving BBC Online to the cloud” in case the URL didn’t make that abundantly clear…)

https://sixfold.medium.com/bringing-kafka-based-architecture-to-the-next-level-using-simple-postgresql-tables-415f1ff6076d