Feeds I follow
A collection of recent articles from blogs that I follow.
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Executing Cron Scripts Reliably At Scale
Cron scripts are responsible for critical Slack functionality. They ensure reminders execute on time, email notifications are sent, and databases are cleaned up, among other things. Over the years, both the number of cron scripts and the amount of data these scripts process have increased. While...
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24 hours in an invisible epidemic
Watch 24 hours of an American day, and the invisible crisis hiding in plain sight.
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Breaking Down the GraphQL Monolith and Automating Developer Workflows through Rails Generators
In this blog, we discuss scaling Gusto’s GraphQL schema using subgraphs, and the tooling to make that fast and easy for engineers.
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GOV.UK Pay product strategy and upcoming features
GOV.UK Pay has ambitious plans for the next few years. Read on to find out what we're doing to deliver our vision and meet more user needs.
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My Summer Return Internship @ Slack: A Guide on Building on Past Experiences
Embarking on a journey Stepping out of SFO with the familiarity of the fogginess of the city, my story at Slack unfolds once again. As a return intern, I found myself prepped for another exciting summer, and this opportunity encompassed a renewed sense of anticipation — a mix between known...
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The new in-person identity check for GOV.UK One Login
Find out about in-person identity checks for GOV.UK One Login.
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Zero Configuration Service Mesh with On-Demand Cluster Discovery
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Traffic 101: Packets Mostly Flow
Slack handles billions of inbound network requests per day, all of which traverse through our edge network and ingress load balancing tiers. In this blog post, we’ll talk about how a request flows — from a Slack’s user perspective — across the vast ether of the network to reach AWS and then...
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Gusto Eng Spotlight Series: Ahsen Turksoy
5th post in the series! Today, we're spotlighting Ahsen Turksoy, who has been with Gusto for 9 months on the Benefits Automations team as part of Gusto Turkiye.
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Slack’s Migration to a Cellular Architecture
Summary In recent years, cellular architectures have become increasingly popular for large online services as a way to increase redundancy and limit the blast radius of site failures. In pursuit of these goals, we have migrated the most critical user-facing services at Slack from a monolithic to...
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GOV.UK One Login: building a green digital service
Find out how the GOV.UK One Login programme is using green IT to make our service as sustainable as possible.