Feeds I follow
A collection of recent articles from blogs that I follow.
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Who Betrayed Dune’s Duke Leto?
Welcome to The Riddler. Every week, I offer up problems related to the things we hold dear around here: math, logic and probability. Two puzzles are presented each week: the Riddler Express for those of you who want something bite-size and the Riddler Classic for those of you in the slow-puzzle...
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Introducing uGroup: Uber’s Consumer Management Framework
Background Apache Kafka® is widely used across Uber’s multiple business lines. Take the example of an Uber ride: When a user opens up the Uber app, demand and supply data are aggregated in Kafka queues to serve fare calculations. … The post Introducing uGroup: Uber’s Consumer Management...
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We’ve created a new guide for content design recruitment
GDS is a great place to be a content designer. We’ve written a recruitment guide to help you make your application.
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Building the Next Evolution of Cloud Networks at Slack – A Retrospective
About a year ago, I wrote a blog post called Building the Next Evolution of Cloud Networks at Slack. In it, we discussed how Slack’s AWS infrastructure has evolved over the years and the pain points that drove us to spin up a brand-new network architecture redesign project called Whitecastle. If...
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Single sign-on: What we learned during our identity alpha
Find out what the team building government’s new single sign-on solution learnt about prototyping, inclusion, apps and more during its digital identity alpha.
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Speed up Building with Docker BuildX and Graviton2 EC2
As the expansion in Arm usage continues, building your images on Arm is crucial to making images available and performant across all architectures which is why we’ve invested in making it super easy to build Arm and multi-arch images. In a previous blog we outlined how to build multi-arch images...
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Can You Hit These Riddles Out Of The Park?
Welcome to The Riddler. Every week, I offer up problems related to the things we hold dear around here: math, logic and probability. Two puzzles are presented each week: the Riddler Express for those of you who want something bite-size and the Riddler Classic for those of you in the slow-puzzle...
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Improving HDFS I/O Utilization for Efficiency
Scaling our data infrastructure with lower hardware costs while maintaining high performance and service reliability has been no easy feat. To accommodate the exponential growth in both Data Storage and Analytics Compute at Uber, the Data Infrastructure team massively overhauled … The post...
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This article discusses the powerful design choice of Apache Kafka, “an open-source distributed event streaming platform,” and gives a sneak…
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Welcome to The Riddler. Every week, I offer up problems related to the things we hold dear around here: math, logic and probability. Two puzzles are presented each week: the Riddler Express for those of you who want something bite-size and the Riddler Classic for those of you in the slow-puzzle...
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A new standard of testing for GOV.UK
How we consolidated the testing landscape for GOV.UK into a small number of practical rules that are bringing a new consistency to the way we test our code.
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Interpreting A/B test results: false positives and statistical significance
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Infrastructure Observability for Changing the Spend Curve
Slack is an integral part of where work happens for teams across the world, and our work in the Core Development Engineering department supports engineers throughout Slack that develop, build, test, and release high-quality services to Slack’s customers. In this article, we share how teams at...