A build-time summary of 34 unique engineering articles collected across seven daily digests.
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- AI & Machine Learning — 15 articles
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- Engineering Culture — 5 articles
- Infrastructure & Scale — 4 articles
- Databases & Storage — 2 articles
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- Stripe Engineering — 7 articles
- AWS News — 6 articles
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- GitHub Blog — 5 articles
- Meta Engineering — 4 articles
Representative Articles
GitHub Copilot app: The agent-native desktop experience
GitHub Blog · AI & Machine Learning
At Microsoft Build 2026, GitHub introduced new tools, updates, and surfaces so agents can work the way you already work The post GitHub Copilot app: The agent-native desktop experience appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
GitHub for Beginners: Getting started with Git and GitHub in VS Code
GitHub Blog · Developer Tools
Discover how to use VS Code to interact with GitHub and maintain your projects The post GitHub for Beginners: Getting started with Git and GitHub in VS Code appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Reel Friends: Building Social Discovery that Scales to Billions
Meta Engineering · Engineering Culture
It highlights Reels your friends have watched and reacted to But sometimes the features that seem the most straightforward require the deepest engineering work The post Reel Friends: Building Social Discovery that Scales to Billions appeared first on Engineering at Meta.
From Silos to Service Topology: Why Netflix Built a Real-Time Service Map
Netflix TechBlog · Infrastructure & Scale
We needed to combine multiple sources.These lessons shaped every decision we made in building Service Topology.What We Needed: A Living MapWe set out to build something specific: a living map of our infrastructure — one that updates in real-time as services deploy, as traffic patterns shift, as new dependencies form and old ones disappear.The requirements were clear:Real-time updates, not stale snapshots: In an environment where services deploy continuously, yesterday’s topology map is archaeology, not observability.Fast queries at scale: When an engineer is troubleshooting at 3am, they can’t wait minutes for a query to return This graduated approach also prevents hot spots by distributing load across multiple points even when specific applications or network intermediaries see 100x more traffic than others.Graph Storage: We persist the topology in Netflix’s graph database, an abstraction layer built on top of our distributed key-value storage infrastructure Each of our three data sources (network flows, IPC metrics, tracing) creates a separate graph that can be queried independently or merged.gRPC API: We expose the topology through a gRPC service that supports multi-hop traversal, filtering by availability tier and business domain, pagination for large result sets, and sub-second query response times.The technical details of building this at Netflix scale — handling Kafka lag, managing memory and garbage collection, optimizing distributed processing, debugging reactive streams — deserve their own discussion
High-Throughput Graph Abstraction at Netflix: Part I
Netflix TechBlog · Databases & Storage
Looking ahead, we plan to leverage the graph schema for additional improvements, such as:Minimizing Query Fanout: By using edge cardinality within edge mappings, we aim to select the most efficient traversal paths and minimize query fanout.Improved Developer Experience: The schema will support generating a type-safe data access layer and enhance the Gremlin-like API with schema awareness.Next, let’s look at how this data is organized in a real-time index within the KV Abstraction.Real-Time Index: Key-Value StorageBefore we discuss how the data is organized into graph indexes, let’s discuss how KV organizes data within namespaces and provides idempotency guarantees:Data partitioning: A namespace is associated with a table in the underlying storage layer In order to ensure optimal performance without exerting too much memory pressure, we aim to limit the number of edges per source node within the system.Next, let’s explore the caching strategies used by the Abstraction.Caching Strategies in Graph AbstractionAlthough the Graph Abstraction already provides efficient reads and writes to durable storage, caching remains critical for the stability and performance of any graph datastore for two key reasons:Write amplification: A single write on the fronting service can result in multiple writes to the backing durable storage due to the use of multiple indexes As illustrated in the diagram below, both the caching layer and durable storage replicate data asynchronously across regions, resulting in an eventually consistent system.Now that we’ve covered storing the real-time graph index, let’s see how it enables graph traversals.Graph TraversalsThe Abstraction provides a custom gRPC traversal API, inspired by Gremlin, which enables exploration of the distributed graph by letting users chain traversals, apply filter criteria, sort results, limit results, and more.Let’s explore a hypothetical scenario where the Abstraction is used to recommend shows to users on a shared device, by considering the duration of the most recent viewing session for each show across all profiles and accounts associated with that device:TraversalRequest.newBuilder() .setNamespace("
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