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One Cache to Rule Them All: Handling Responses and In-Flight Requests with Durable Objects

Traditional caching fails to stop "thundering herds" where multiple clients trigger the same work during a miss. This article proposes using Cloudflare Durable Objects to treat in-flight work and finished results as two states of one cache entry. By routing to a single owner, systems eliminate redundant tasks. This pattern replaces complex locks with simple promises, simplifying the system design.

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Engineering Speed at Scale — Architectural Lessons from Sub-100-ms APIs

Sub‑100-ms APIs emerge from disciplined architecture using latency budgets, minimized hops, async fan‑out, layered caching, circuit breakers, and strong observability. But long‑term speed depends on culture, with teams owning p99, monitoring drift, managing thread pools, and treating performance as a shared, continuous responsibility.

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Why Most Machine Learning Projects Fail to Reach Production

In this article, the author diagnoses common failures in ML initiatives, including weak problem framing and the persistent prototype-to-production gap. The piece provides practical, experience-based guidance on setting clear business goals, treating data as a product, and aligning cross-functional teams for reliable, production-ready ML delivery.

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Scaling to 100+ as a Director: Lessons From Growing Engineering Organizations

Thiago Ghisi discusses the strategic evolution required to lead 100+ engineers without breaking the organization. He explains his "Three Levels of Impact" framework and shares practical lessons on speeding up decision-making, cultivating leadership teams, and building organizational resilience. Learn why he views reorgs as a continuous deployment feature rather than a one-time traumatic event.

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No QA Environment? No Problem: How Classpass Enables Testing on a Single Environment in ECS

Po Linn Chia shares the sociotechnical journey of ClassPass, moving from a flaky, homegrown testing framework to a dynamic routing architecture on ECS. She discusses leveraging Traefik and OpenTelemetry baggage to enable "shadow mains" and ephemeral feature testing. This talk provides a pragmatic blueprint for engineering leaders to increase developer velocity with a lean platform team.

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Airbnb Expands Global Checkout with “Pay as a Local,” Scaling to 220 Markets in 14 Months

Airbnb expands its global checkout with the “Pay as a Local” initiative, supporting over 20 locally preferred payment methods across 220 markets. The company replatformed its payments system with domain-oriented services, reusable flow archetypes, and a centralized configuration, enhancing integration speed, reliability, testing, and observability for diverse payment methods worldwide.

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One Cache to Rule Them All: Handling Responses and In-Flight Requests with Durable Objects

Engineering Speed at Scale — Architectural Lessons from Sub-100-ms APIs

Why Most Machine Learning Projects Fail to Reach Production

Scaling to 100+ as a Director: Lessons From Growing Engineering Organizations

No QA Environment? No Problem: How Classpass Enables Testing on a Single Environment in ECS

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Scaling to 100+ as a Director: Lessons From Growing Engineering Organizations

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