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This post explains how Netflix adopted Temporal, a durable execution platform, to improve reliability of cloud operations in their Spinnaker CD pipeline.

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AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon ECS, Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon Cognito and more (December 15, 2025)

The AWS Weekly Roundup for December 15, 2025 covers key AWS releases.

AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS re:Invent keynote recap, on-demand videos, and more (December 8, 2025)

This post recaps AWS re:Invent 2025 keynotes and notable product launches from the week of December 8, 2025.

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Build better software to build software better

This post explains how the Slack/Quip build team reduced 60-minute build times by applying software engineering principles (caching and parallelization) to their Bazel-based build pipeline.

Grab's Mac Cloud Exit supercharges macOS CI/CD

Grab migrated its macOS CI/CD infrastructure from a US cloud vendor to a self-owned colocation cluster in Malaysia, achieving major cost and performance gains.

Advancing Our Chef Infrastructure: Safety Without Disruption

Slack describes how they improved Chef infrastructure safety by splitting environments and implementing a release train model without disrupting existing cookbooks or roles.

From Static Rate Limiting to Adaptive Traffic Management in Airbnb’s Key-Value Store

Airbnb evolved Mussel, its multi-tenant key-value store, from simple QPS rate limiting to an adaptive traffic management system to maximize goodput during traffic spikes.

Deploy Safety: Reducing customer impact from change

Slack's Deploy Safety Program reduced customer impact hours by 90% over 18 months by overhauling deployment practices and safety culture.

Hack Week 2025: How these engineers liquid-cooled a GPU server

Dropbox engineers built a custom liquid cooling system for GPU servers during Hack Week 2025, winning the Learn Fast award for accelerating innovation in infrastructure.

Migrating Airbnb’s JVM Monorepo to Bazel

Airbnb completed a 4.5-year migration of their JVM monorepo (tens of millions of lines of Java, Kotlin, and Scala) from Gradle to Bazel.

Seamless Istio Upgrades at Scale

This post explains how Airbnb safely upgrades Istio across tens of thousands of pods on dozens of Kubernetes clusters without workload team coordination.

How GitHub engineers tackle platform problems

A GitHub platform engineer shares best practices for tackling infrastructure problems, drawing an analogy between product engineers and platform engineers using Gundam model building.