π¨βπ» Dev Weekly - Issue 2
#2 β January 12th, 2020
Dev Weekly
From 15,000 database connections to under 100: DigitalOcean's tale of tech debt
Tl;dr DigitalOcean engineer explains how the engineering team overcame tech debt by introducing event routers, messaging queue and asynchronous workers to minimize database connections, rewrote a scheduler to make it more performant.
Recommended for: Backend engineers
Demystifying βblack boxβ methods of text feature extraction from Rx data
Tl;dr Walmart data scientist explains how her team was able to come up with a way to classify prescription notes as critical with moderate success.Β
Recommended for: Machine Learning engineers
Tl;dr Grab engineer talks about his teamβs journey of building and deploying an event sourcing platform in Go.
Recommended for: Infra engineers
Better Android Testing at Airbnb - Part 7: Test Generation and CI
Tl;dr In their last series of Android testing at Airbnb, engineer walks through how theyβve set up tools in places to automate generating test files, run integration tests in parallel and more.
Recommended for: Android engineers