Gergely Orosz - a senior engineer who worked on Uber’s distributed payment systems (more on that in Issue #6), shares his go-to tips on designing system architecture.

He shares a story on how building a large scale project without using complex software architecture looked like.

This story talks about how Airbnb’s engineering team uses Krispr to simplify the process of running services on Kubernetes and improve the workflow for over 1000 engineers.

Read more on how they are striking for the right balance between infrastructure stability and development velocity.

This is a story on how BBC World Service managed to migrate over 31 million weekly readers to an isomorphic react application and increase their page performance up to 83%.

That’s far from the best part of the story, as they also share how they built their own rendering platform called Simorgh.

It’s an exciting story to read about their struggles, goals, and ideas behind the entire operation.

Demian Brecht and Drew Shafer from Salesforce’s Engineering Team share the struggle and hassle with open sourcing their Django-Declarative-APIs framework back in 2011.

A great story on how corporates considered open source back in the days and the entire process engineers need to go through.

Hank Lander that works as a Senior Product Manager at HubSpot talks about how they improved Retros in their organization.

Some time ago Hank and his team decided to put people and team health first. The findings are interesting.

Gergely Bihary from Prezi’s engineering team has conducted a small survey sent to 30 engineers in his team to find out what their thoughts on technical debt are.

78% of participants encountered technical debt in their work, less than 45% of them make time to repair the debt, and more surprising statistics await inside.

Brian Krebs, a cyber security investigative journalist at Krebson Security, shares a story on how GoDaddy employees managed to compromise over 28.000 of their customers’ web hosting accounts.

This was due to an attack that tricked a lot of their employees into providing ownership to the fraudsters. Brian explains the entire story thoroughly and also gives a few pointers on better security. ️

David Mercurio shares personal insights and experiences about cultural practices that one can apply to help improve the effectiveness of an engineering organization. Must read.

Join us for an hour of open conversation with Taylor Otwell, the creator of Laravel. We’ll dive into Laravel and the ecosystem it created for developers, the potential of the framework for building large scale apps, and why you should give it a try if you still haven’t.