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Pinterest Unifies Engineering Tools with New Pinconsole Platform
Pinterest has introduced PinConsole, a unified internal developer platform (IDP) that centralizes engineering workflows. Built to address fragmented tools for deployment, monitoring, and service management, PinConsole provides a consistent layer that lets engineers focus on business logic instead of infrastructure complexity.
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Impulse, Airbnb’s New Framework for Context-Aware Load Testing
Airbnb has developed Impulse, an internal load testing framework to improve microservice reliability and performance. It enables distributed, large-scale testing and lets teams run self-service, context-aware load tests integrated with CI pipelines. By simulating production-like traffic, Impulse helps engineers identify bottlenecks and errors before changes reach production.
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Uber Eats Scales Catalog Management from Restaurants to Retail with INCA Framework
Uber Eats introduced INCA (Inventory and Catalog), a scalable system to handle vast product catalogs from supermarkets, pharmacies, and retail partners. Unlike the earlier restaurant-focused setup built for low SKUs and simple pass-through data, INCA supports large-scale inventories, rich metadata, and compliance needs essential for retail operations.
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AWS Lambda Response Streaming Increases Payload Limit to 200 MB
AWS has revolutionized Lambda with an increased response streaming payload limit from 20 MB to 200 MB. This enhancement allows developers to stream larger data sets, improving Time to First Byte performance. By simplifying response handling and eliminating complex workarounds, AWS empowers developers to deliver rich content seamlessly, transforming serverless applications.
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Amazon DocumentDB Serverless: Auto-Scaling Database Solution for Variable Workloads
AWS has launched Amazon DocumentDB Serverless, an auto-scaling database solution compatible with MongoDB, tailored for variable workloads. While marketed as "serverless," it functions more like auto-scaling, charging from $30/month. Ideal for enterprises and SaaS vendors, it adeptly handles spikes in demand, particularly for AI-driven applications.
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Grab Switches from SQS and Redis to Temporal for Its Subscription Platform
Grab based the new architecture for GrabUnlimited on Temporal. The company enhanced user experience and reduced production incidents by 80% for its subscription platform, which serves millions of users. The new architecture significantly improved robustness and scalability, addressing a range of issues with the previous solution.
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Apple Completes Migration of Key Ecosystem Service to Swift, Gains 40% Performance Uplift
Apple has migrated its global Password Monitoring service from Java to Swift, achieving a 40% increase in throughput and significantly reducing memory usage—freeing up nearly 50% of previously allocated Kubernetes capacity.
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AWS Promotes Responsible AI in the Well-Architected Generative AI Lens
AWS announced the availability of the new Well-Architected Generative AI Lens, focused on providing best practices for designing and operating generative AI workloads. The lens is aimed at organizations delivering robust and cost-effective generative AI solutions on AWS. The document offers cloud-agnostic best practices, implementation guidance and links to additional resources.
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QCon London 2025: Applying Domain-Driven Design at Scale
At QCon London 2025, Vanderbijl unveiled how domain-driven design transformed a chaotic healthcare platform into a coherent business architecture. Through innovative strategies like "Take That" and "Robbie Williams," the team tackled architectural complexity, emphasizing adaptability and continuous improvement. This journey illustrates DDD as an evolving process essential for sustainable growth.
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QCon London 2025: Insights from 20+ Years in Mission-Critical Infrastructure
Matthew Liste, head of infrastructure at American Express, shared insights at QCon London 2025 on building robust cloud platforms in financial services. With 20+ years of experience, he emphasized stability, security, scalability, the value of interchangeable components, and long-term sustainability, urging professionals to maintain focus and foster a strong team culture for platform engineering.
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How Uber Sped up SQL-based Data Analytics with Presto and Express Queries
Uber uses Presto, an open-source distributed SQL query engine, to provide analytics across several data sources, including Apache Hive, Apache Pinot, MySQL, and Apache Kafka. To improve its performance, Uber engineers explored the advantages of dealing with quick queries, a.k.a. express queries, in a specific way and found they could improve both Presto utilization and response times.
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Improving the Efficiency of Goku Time-Series Database at Pinterest
Pinterest has modernized and enhanced its Goku time-series database. The recent updates focus on optimizing storage and resource usage without compromising service quality.
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Software Architecture Tracks at QCon San Francisco 2024 – Navigating Current Challenges and Trends
At QCon San Francisco 2024, software architecture is front and center, with two tracks dedicated to exploring some of the largest and most complex architectures today. Join senior software practitioners as they provide inspiration and practical lessons for architects seeking to tackle issues at a massive scale.
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Netflix’s Pushy: Evolution of Scalable WebSocket Platform That Handles 100Ms Concurrent Connections
Netflix shared details on the evolution of Pushy, a WebSocket messaging platform that supports push notifications and inter-device communication across many different devices for the company’s products. Netflix’s engineers implemented many improvements across the Pushy ecosystem to ensure the platform's scalability and reliability and support new capabilities.
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Canva Opts for Amazon KDS over SNS+SQS to Save 85% with 25 Billion Events per Day
Canva evaluated different data massaging solutions for its Product Analytics Platform, including the combination of AWS SNS and SQS, MKS, and Amazon KDS, and eventually chose the latter, primarily based on its much lower costs. The company compared many aspects of these solutions, like performance, maintenance effort, and cost.