Architecture Articles

Figma describes how they replaced their decade-old Instance Updater with a new generic framework called Materializer to handle component instance resolution at scale.

Vercel

74 min read

Architecture•2026-03-12

How Notion Workers run untrusted code at scale with Vercel Sandbox

This article explains how Notion Workers uses Vercel Sandbox to safely execute untrusted code at scale with strong security isolation.

Databricks

101 min read

Architecture•2026-03-11

How Ontologies Help Nuclear Scale to Meet Global Energy Demand

This article explores how ontologies can address the knowledge management challenges facing nuclear power plants as the U.S.

Architecture•2026-03-09

Decoupled by Design: Billion-Scale Vector Search

Databricks redesigned its Vector Search from scratch to support billion-scale workloads by decoupling storage from compute.

Cloudflare

71 min read

Architecture•2026-03-05

How Automatic Return Routing solves IP overlap

Cloudflare introduces Automatic Return Routing (ARR), a stateful tracking solution that resolves IP address overlap in enterprise private networks without NAT or VRF configuration.

Architecture•2026-03-04

The AI-native core: Highly resilient telco architecture using Google Kubernetes Engine

This post explores how Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) serves as a high-performance foundation for modernizing telecommunications network infrastructure with AI-native capabilities.

Containers & Kubernetes

Architecture•2026-03-03

Data Strategy = AI Strategy Series: Transforming Developers into AI Architects with Google Cloud

This post introduces an enterprise AI architecture framework arguing that data strategy and AI strategy are inseparable in 2026, using Google Cloud's database services as the foundation.

Developers & Practitioners

GitHub

96 min read

Architecture•2026-03-03

How we rebuilt the search architecture for high availability in GitHub Enterprise Server

GitHub Engineering rebuilt the search architecture in GitHub Enterprise Server using Elasticsearch's Cross Cluster Replication (CCR) to achieve true high availability.

41 min read

Architecture•2026-02-24

Piqama: Pinterest Quota Management Ecosystem

Pinterest's Piqama is a generic quota management ecosystem that handles the full lifecycle of resource quotas across Big Data Processing and Online Services.

Architecture•2026-02-19

Our Multi-Agent Architecture for Smarter Advertising

Spotify introduces a multi-agent AI architecture to unify advertising media planning across Direct, Self-Serve, and Programmatic buying channels.

Architecture•2026-02-13

Shedding old code with ecdysis: graceful restarts for Rust services at Cloudflare

Cloudflare open-sourced ecdysis, a Rust library enabling zero-downtime graceful process restarts for high-traffic network services.

Architecture•2026-02-12

Spotlight on SIG Architecture: API Governance

This article is an interview with Jordan Liggitt, lead of the Kubernetes SIG Architecture API Governance subproject, covering the goals, scope, and practices of API governance in Kubernetes.