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Challenging Google Analytics: Building a Scalable, Cost-Effective User Tracking Service
Alina Krasavina discusses how Delivery Hero built an in-house tracking platform to replace Google Analytics. She explains their architecture, load testing, and how they cut storage costs by 75%.
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Write-Ahead Intent Log: a Foundation for Efficient CDC at Scale
Vinay Chella and Akshat Goel explain why they outgrew traditional CDC at scale. They share how they built Write-Ahead Intent Log (WAIL) using a proxy layer to decouple data replication.
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Beyond Speed Limits: Exploring the Performance Power of Valkey
Viktor Vedmich explains how to achieve sub-millisecond application latency using Valkey, an open-source, high-performance in-memory fork of Redis supported by AWS.
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Stripe’s Docdb: How Zero-Downtime Data Movement Powers Trillion-Dollar Payment Processing
Jimmy Morzaria explains how Stripe scales its MongoDB infrastructure to process $1.4 trillion in payments. He shares the engineering behind their zero-downtime data movement platform and DocDB.
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Reimagining Platform Engagement with Graph Neural Networks
Mariia Bulycheva explains how Zalando utilized Graph Neural Networks to move beyond tabular data, modeling higher-order user-item interactions to optimize long-term engagement and click probability.
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Open Source, Community, and Consequence: the Story of MongoDB
Andrew Davidson and Akshat Vig share the "MongoDB Way", discussing how to disrupt a 50-year database legacy by leveraging the document model, community trust, and rapid, public iteration.
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How to Build a Database without a Server
Alex Seaton explains how Man Group built ArcticDB, a serverless database connecting directly to S3. He discusses using CRDTs to manage global state and leveraging immutable trees for atomicity.
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Vector Sync Patterns: Keeping AI Features Fresh When Your Data Changes
Ricardo Ferreira discusses five advanced Vector Sync Patterns to tackle multi-dimensional vector staleness & integration challenges in modern AI/microservices architectures.
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Chatting with Your Knowledge Graph
Jonathan Lowe discusses how to enable an LLM to chat with a structured graph database. He explains the process of using semantic search and knowledge graphs to answer natural language questions.
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Rust: a Productive Language for Writing Database Applications
Carl Lerche discusses Rust's potential for higher-level applications & shares productivity tips.
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Ultra-Fast In-Memory Database Applications with Java
Markus Kett shares how to build the fastest database applications using Java & EclipseStore, bypassing traditional database limitations.
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Optimizing Search at Uber Eats
Janani Narayanan and Karthik Ramasamy share Uber Eats' backend scaling journey for nX merchant growth, tackling latency with infra & indexing optimizations.
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