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engineering.atspotify.com 3y ago

Fleet-Wide Refactoring at Spotify

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engineering.atspotify.com 5y ago

How Spotify Optimized the Largest Dataflow Job Ever for Wrapped 2020

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www.vice.com 5y ago

Secret Amazon Reports Expose the Company’s Surveillance of Employee Groups

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cloud.google.com 6y ago

GKE now supports 15000 node Kubernetes clusters

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medium.com 7y ago

I recently told my friend I need to stop chasing new shiny things

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www.nytimes.com 7y ago

Tech Workers Now Want to Know: What Are We Building This For?

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hackerone.com 8y ago

How a Shopify Kubernetes cluster was exploited

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labs.spotify.com 9y ago

Improving Critical Infrastructure Rollouts

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www.nytimes.com 10y ago

Effort to Expose Russia’s ‘Troll Army’ Draws Vicious Retaliation

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www.nytimes.com 10y ago

F.B.I. Tried to Defeat Encryption 10 Years Ago, Files Show

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www.youtube.com 10y ago

Google Data Center 360° Tour

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jezebel.com 10y ago

Spotify Offers All Full-Time Employees 6 Months Paid Parental Leave

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labs.spotify.com 10y ago

Data-Driven Configuration of Cassandra

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www.buzzfeed.com 11y ago

The New American Slavery: Invited to the US, Foreign Workers Find a Nightmare

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www.zdfs.com 11y ago

On Interviewing Software Engineers

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labs.spotify.com 11y ago

Personalization at Spotify using Cassandra

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labs.spotify.com 11y ago

Solving MapReduce Performance Problems with Sharded Joins

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labs.spotify.com 11y ago

Date-Tiered Compaction in Apache Cassandra

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www.datastax.com 11y ago

DateTieredCompactionStrategy: Compaction for Time Series Data

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research.microsoft.com 12y ago

Use of Formal Methods at Amazon Web Services [pdf]

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jeffknupp.com 12y ago

Why I Hate HATEOAS

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medium.com 12y ago

The Kindle wink

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www.nytimes.com 12y ago

Obama Lets N.S.A. Exploit Some Internet Flaws, Officials Say

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www.washingtonpost.com 12y ago

Sinkhole of bureaucracy

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www.capitalnewyork.com 12y ago

A proposal to restrain Tesla in New York

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www.npr.org 12y ago

What It's Like to Live on Low Pay in a Land of Plenty

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www.businessinsider.com 12y ago

The Fair Price Of A Bitcoin Is Zero

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www.nytimes.com 12y ago

Google Sets Plan to Sell Users’ Endorsements

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www.nakedcapitalism.com 12y ago

OWS’s Rolling Jubilee Has Yet to Explain What They’ve Done With $590,000

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www.akamai.com 12y ago

Whitepaper on Akamai's infrastructure

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we implemented logic to prevent the node from going down at the top of a minute when possible since — given the nature of cron — that is when it is likely that scripts will need to be scheduled to run

Why not smear the start time of the jobs across seconds of that minute to avoid any thundering herd problems? How much functionality relies on a script being invoked at exactly the :00 mark? And if the functionality depends on that exact timing, doesn’t it suggest something is fragile and could be redesigned to be more resilient?

the domain name developer.apple.com resolves through a series of CNAMEs to Apple's CDN (applimg.com), which if it was down would explain other things like iMessage also being unavailable.