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If nothing else, the last year has brought the winds of change to the tech sector. From high-visibility layoff cycles at FAANGs and crypto companies, to turbulence in our social media infrastructure, to pop culture’s discovery of deep …

With all the blockchain breaches and social media escapades, there’s been an awful lot of buzz about distributed systems lately. But how many of us really understand how they work? Let’s dive in together…

Serialization format is an often-overlooked engineering step that could make your application as slow as a turtle or as speedy as a cheetah!

In this post we’ll explore the question, how does a distributed system actually die?

Even though we are a fully distributed team, we celebrate curiosity, collaboration, and growth together in-person as much as we can. We’ve maintained a tradition of combining tech conferences with team retreats, and this October we …

If you talk about WebAssembly (WASM), you just may spark debate about whether it is really the next best thing in web development or the second coming of Java applets. In this post, we’ll dive into WASM, how it is currently …

Kafka and PubSub and Kinesis, oh my! Which eventing platform is best? In this post we’ll explore the three primary categories of eventing systems and understand their similarities, differences, and key use cases.

The data type choices we make when building data systems or metrics is critically important: as our systems run for long periods of time it can be easy to overflow the integers that we use (Y2K bug anyone?). As a result, I find myself …

Over the course of the past few months, I’ve had the pleasure of interning at Rotational Labs as a technical writer. I’m excited to share a little bit about my experience and provide some insight from the perspective of someone who is …

As programmers, we tend think of ourselves as authors of code, but our daily engineering practice probably requires us to spend more time reading code than writing it. Perhaps this is even a source of stress for you. Changing your mindset …

gRPC is an effective way of implementing service-to-service APIs. However, there are limited tools available for mocking and testing gRPC services out of the box. One option is to set up a live test server, although this comes with its own …

With almost 30 billion connected devices, this isn’t Al Gore’s internet anymore. Consider this: According to Cisco’s Annual Internet Report, there will be 29.3 billion internet-connected devices in 2023, or more than three for every human. …