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You can read about the 'how' in this brilliantly written article by Slack engineers. Let's focus on the 'why'! The Context Slack handles critical web requests like message posts, push notifications, calendar reminders, billing, etc asynchronously us...
I have spent a good 6 years working in a newsroom where every day was a unique experience. This is what a ‘’Happy Path’ looked like in the day of the life of a news producer (my perspective). I had to generate 5 new story ideas for the day and get ...
If you are not familiar with Discord, here’s a quick introduction. Discord is a voice, video, and text chat app that's used by tens of millions of people to talk and hang out with their communities and friends. The communities in Discord are called “...
Context: The objective of this exercise is to create a simplified version of Redis in C# as a learning project. We will call it "KVLite"! While Redis is a complex and feature-rich key-value store, we will focus on implementing a subset of its featur...
The Context Picture this. The product you are working on is a few years old. Through trial and tribulation, your team has been constantly adding new features. The team has planned to implement an important feature of the product. The team was fe...
While there are voluminous books on HTTP, I have done my best to condense the important parts that every developer must understand about HTTP in one article. Let's look at the HTTP version used at some of the top websites in the world. Open Chrome ...
