This week, how to build a search engine powered by embeddings, how to think about GPUs and code might be more effective than a bunch of MCP servers.| Architecture Notes — System Design & Software Development
This week, vibe code like a senior, rethink tokenization, and meet Nvidia’s GPU beast. Plus: why toy programs matter, how MCP became a plugin OS, and taming noisy AI code reviews.| Architecture Notes — System Design & Software Development
This week, Explore how AWS uses formal methods, what Kubernetes 2.0 could fix, and how databases store tables on disk. Plus: agentic coding, better AI docs, and 9 years of debugging lessons.| Architecture Notes — System Design & Software Development
This week, GitLab cuts backups from 48h to 41m, Twitter’s DMs aren’t as secure as they seem, and Stanford’s Tokasaurus boosts LLM speed. Plus, rethink common misconceptions in aviation software.| Architecture Notes — System Design & Software Development
Pinterest’s massive TypeScript migration, Instagram’s 1000-model scale-up, and Netflix’s clearer dialogue. Plus: breakthrough in algorithms, Merkle trees, and why humans still outthink AI.| Architecture Notes — System Design & Software Development
This week, Explore OpenAI Codex in action, DoorDash’s AI-powered search evals, and the case for clever code.| Architecture Notes — System Design & Software Development
This week, master caching, cut build times like Slack, explore email protocols, unlock distributed systems insights, and sharpen search relevance with judgment lists—all in one go!| Architecture Notes — System Design & Software Development
This week, explore how AI is transforming software development, uncover hidden pitfalls in REST API design, and dive into the secrets of log search engine speed.| Architecture Notes — System Design & Software Development
This week, dive into how Let’s Encrypt scaled to handle a billion certificates, uncover Uber’s MySQL strategies for powering billions of rides, and explore why dependency management shift.| Architecture Notes — System Design & Software Development
This week: Uncover AVX-512’s search speed, Dropbox’s messaging evolution, and GitHub Actions’ CI/CD flaws.| Architecture Notes — System Design & Software Development
This week, explore resilience lessons from Canva’s outage, the uv package manager simplifying Python scripting, building your own data center, and game-changing test-driven development with LLMs.| Architecture Notes — System Design & Software Development
This week, discover how Threads scaled for 300M+ users, master advanced Git commands, and explore innovations making SQLite 100x faster for serverless and edge computing| Architecture Notes — System Design & Software Development
This week, optimize AI VRAM usage with advanced quantization, explore Amazon’s new Aurora DSQL for scalable databases, and tackle the challenges of AI-assisted coding to build better software.| Architecture Notes — System Design & Software Development
This week, Netflix’s self-healing bug fix, Canva’s privacy-preserving search improvements, and the speed boost of binary vector embeddings—this week’s highlights are packed with innovation!| Architecture Notes — System Design & Software Development
This week, Cloudflare’s DNS migration boosted reliability, AWS uses automated reasoning to optimize systems, and Jujutsu bridges Mercurial and Git.| Architecture Notes — System Design & Software Development
This week, see how WebSockets led to a $1M cloud bill, explore a new vector database enhancing AI with fast search, and learn why some are ditching Kubernetes for better security and resource control.| Architecture Notes — System Design & Software Development
This week, Discover how Netflix cut Time-to-Interactive by 50% through JavaScript optimization, why OpenZFS deduplication might still not fit your needs, and the power of ephemeral software.| Architecture Notes — System Design & Software Development
This week, Dropbox cuts server costs by 25% with Robinhood, Spotify scales content annotations using automation, and Vercel boosts performance through microfrontends.| Architecture Notes — System Design & Software Development
This week, discover how an AI copilot is streamlining on-call engineering, explore multi-agent system coordination, and learn a low-cost video scraping technique. Plus, compare browser storage options| architecturenotes.co
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