Ask an SRE to name the most serious threats to reliability, and typos probably won’t feature on the list. But maybe they should. Sometimes, an errant keystroke is all it takes to bring critical systems offline. And unlike text messages and email, these systems don’t usually have autocorrect tools to step in and save the day.

How Airbnb ships features faster across web, iOS, and Android? They use a server side rendering system, even for mobile app. So that client doesn’t have to maintain how it renders data, and update to UI can be done without an app release.

PostgreSQL comes with the ability to do incremental backups and point-in-time recovery out of the box. Read on to learn more about the settings and procedures to achieve this. Set them up today and you will be grateful by the time you need point in time recovery.

A particularly tricky class of memory leak occurs when an application references objects that have their own lifecycle, like DOM elements or popup windows. It’s possible for these types of objects to become unused without the application knowing, which means application code may have the only remaining references to an object that could otherwise be garbage collected

Say your database is slow and some query timeout. So the client re-try the query, now the database has to serve both query, it’s still running the original query and the new retrying query? How can we prevent those kind of cascading failure?

CloudFlare run Kubernetes on bare-metal machines without relying on any cloud provider. They found that many k8s node will have network issue after a month-long running, simply restart will fix the issue so they made a process to automate that process.

AWS Lambda is power by a microVM solution called Firecracker. Basically a VM but spin up as fast as

How would you approach creating a programming language. Summrization, resources to get into this kind of project

Go from learning more about SQLite, Python, and eventually Rust… in my quest to get a 1B row database under a minute. This blog post is a summary of this fun and educational exercise.