Welcome to our latest issue on IPv4 addressing. In this issue, we'll learn about the basic parts of IPv4 addressing, including its structure, the role of subnet masks, and the meaning of network, broadcast, and host addresses. IP is used to send packets from the source to their final destination, either within the same network or across multiple networks.| blog.bytebytego.com
Netflix began its life in 1997 as a mail-based DVD rental business. Marc Randolph and Reed Hastings got the idea of Netflix while carpooling between their office and home in California. Hastings admired Amazon and wanted to emulate their success by finding a large category of portable items to sell over the Internet. It was around the same time that DVDs were introduced in the United States and they tested the concept of selling or renting DVDs by mail.| blog.bytebytego.com
Software development is a field of ideas and experiments. One idea leads to an experiment that spawns another idea and the cycle of innovation moves forward. Open-source projects are the fuel for this innovation. A good open-source project impacts the lives of many developers and creates a fertile environment for collaboration. Many of the greatest breakthroughs in software development have come from open-source projects.| blog.bytebytego.com
For this week's issue, I am pleased to introduce our guest author, Ethan Evans, a retired Amazon VP who played a pivotal role in creating some of the groundbreaking services we use today, such as Prime Video, Amazon Video, the Amazon Appstore, Prime Gaming (formerly Twitch Prime), and Twitch Commerce.| blog.bytebytego.com
This week’s system design refresher: Vertical Vs Horizontal Scaling: Key Differences You Should Know (Youtube video) REST API Authentication Methods Symmetric encryption vs asymmetric encryption How does Redis persist data? Vertical Vs Horizontal Scaling: Key Differences You Should Know| blog.bytebytego.com
The Internet blinked and Facebook disappeared. For nearly six hours in October 2021, Facebook’s apps vanished from the online world. In this issue, we unpack the anatomy of this severe outage to understand the deeper machinery powering the global Internet.| blog.bytebytego.com
We are considering launching a new ‘How We Built This’ series where we take a behind-the-scenes look at how innovative companies have created scalable, high-performing systems and architectures. Let us know if this is something you’d be interested in reading!| blog.bytebytego.com
In the old days of software development, getting an application from code to production was slow and painful.| blog.bytebytego.com
A book that I have been waiting for a long time is finally out: The Software Engineer's Guidebook, written by Gergely Orosz, a software engineer and author of 'The Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter.' Since the book is out, I contacted Gergely to inquire whether he would be willing to share a chapter with the newsletter audience. To my delight, he kindly agreed. The chapter I've chosen is 'Shipping to Production.' I hope you enjoy it.| blog.bytebytego.com
Welcome back! In the first part of our Kubernetes deep dive, we covered the fundamentals - Kubernetes' architecture, key components like pods and controllers, and core capabilities like networking and storage. Now, we'll dive into the practical side of Kubernetes. You'll learn when and how to apply Kubernetes based on your application needs and team skills. We'll explore advanced features, benefits and drawbacks, use cases where Kubernetes excels, and situations where it may be overkill.| blog.bytebytego.com
In today's world of complex, web-scale application backends made up of many microservices and components running across clusters of servers and containers, managing and coordinating all these pieces is incredibly challenging.| blog.bytebytego.com
In the last issue, we explored common use cases with Redis. In this issue, we will go deeper and demonstrate how Redis’ versatile data structures can power more complex applications like social networks, location-based services, and more. We will walk through practical examples of building key features like user profiles, relationship graphs, home timelines, and nearby searches using Redis’ native data types - Hashes, Sets, Sorted Sets, Streams, and Bitmaps.| blog.bytebytego.com
Redis is often referred to as a Swiss Army knife - it's an incredibly versatile in-memory database that can help solve many different problems. Let's say your online game is experiencing slow response times from your database due to rapidly increasing users. Or your e-commerce site needs to quickly display real-time product inventory for flash sales. Or your web analytics need to track page views at massive scale.| blog.bytebytego.com
While most topics in the ByteByteGo newsletter focus on technical knowledge, we also acknowledge the critical role of managing career growth and development, particularly for those at or targeting senior software engineer roles. In today's issue, we are fortunate to have Steve Huynh, Principal Engineer at Amazon, as our guest contributor. Steve is an 18 year veteran at Amazon. He’s conducted more than 850 technical interviews, trained thousands of people on how to conduct interviews and ass...| blog.bytebytego.com
What if you woke up tomorrow and could no longer access websites by typing names like google.com or espn.com? Instead, you had to memorize and type a series of numbers just to get online - 172.217.16.206 to check Gmail or 199.181.132.250 to read sports news. Internet browsing would become extremely tedious overnight!| blog.bytebytego.com
Designing distributed systems is hard.| blog.bytebytego.com
