Archives: 2023/10

2023

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Our primary reporting database, a heavily indexed MariaDB instance, was buckling under the load of nightly aggregation j

2023-10-27 Data Engineering

MariaDB Kafka ETL Java MapReduce Scrum

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The p99 latency alerts for our sentiment analysis API wouldn’t stop. Hosted on AWS Lambda and powered by a Hugging Face

2023-10-27 Observability

Serverless SkyWalking Vector AWS Lambda Hugging Face Transformers OTLP

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The initial project brief was straightforward: build a vector search backend for an internal application. The prototype,

2023-10-27 Distributed Systems

Zookeeper Security mTLS PWA Multi-tenancy Spring Boot Weaviate

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The initial system response time was unacceptable: 45 seconds for a user-initiated parameter change to reflect in a comp

2023-10-27 Distributed Systems

gRPC WebAssembly Flutter Apache Spark Spring Framework

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The technical directive was deceptively simple: establish a presence for our core data platform in a new AWS region. The

2023-10-27 Data Engineering

Kubernetes DynamoDB HBase Crossplane C# Infrastructure as Code

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Our move to a Vercel-hosted Next.js application was meant to simplify deployments and improve frontend performance. It s

2023-10-27 Distributed Systems

Zookeeper Serverless Node.js AWS VPC Vercel Functions