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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.
Slack's Deploy Safety Program reduced customer impact hours by 90% over 18 months by overhauling deployment practices and safety culture.
This post describes a Lyft data scientist's starter project using the Rider Experience Score (RES) tool to estimate long-term causal effects of rider experiences on retention without relying on A/B tests.
This post outlines Dropbox's systematic evaluation framework for conversational AI, developed while building Dropbox Dash.
Go 1.25 introduces flight recording, a diagnostic tool that captures execution traces of the moments leading up to a detected problem in long-running services.
Airbnb shares how they completely rearchitected Mussel, their internal key-value store for derived data, migrating from v1 to a NewSQL-based v2 running in production for over a year.
Airbnb's Viaduct data-oriented service mesh celebrates five years with an open-source release and a major architectural overhaul called "Viaduct Modern".
Airbnb introduces Viaduct, a data-oriented service mesh built on GraphQL that addresses the complexity of large-scale microservices dependency graphs.
The Go Team announces the 2025 Go Developer Survey, open through September 30th.
GitHub is adding a post-quantum secure SSH key exchange algorithm to protect Git data access against future quantum computing threats.
Lyft completed a 7-year migration of its Android codebase from Java to Kotlin across Rider, Driver, and Urban Solutions apps.
This post introduces Slack's Anomaly Event Response (AER), a proactive security system that automatically terminates user sessions upon detecting suspicious behavior.