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Learning from Giants #70
10x your data viz skills and impact, 22 tips to pass (and grade) a coding interview, a deep dive into Neon DB's storage engine, and a fantastic re-post…
 • Mathias Griffe
Learning from Giants #69
Examples of great URL design, When and how to build second products, Fly.io's solution to hiding credentials from Rails, and a fantastic re-post: the…
 • Mathias Griffe
Learning from Giants #68
How Slack takes bigger product bets, Pinterest's wide-column database on RocksDB, Pattern parties to keep codebases consistent, and a fantastic re-post…
 • Mathias Griffe
Learning from Giants #67
Small change-lists make Google fast, AWS S3's incredible emergent properties at scale, an introduction to CRDTs, and a fantastic re-post: the Power of…
 • Mathias Griffe
Learning from Giants #66
How Meta gives trusted time in their datacenters, why structure and systems are the essence of design work, ClickHouse's six join algorithms, and a…
 • Mathias Griffe
Learning from Giants #65
A first look at React Server Components, Golden Rules for Organizational Structure, a survey of Analytics Databases, and a fantastic re-post: the Linear…
 • Mathias Griffe
Learning from Giants #64
The software architecture of the backbone of Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1, A framework to beat larger competitors, and the full theory behind graceful behavior…
 • Mathias Griffe
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