A few really smart people at Pinterest came up with a distributed cache system that caches hundreds of terabytes of data served at more than 150 million requests per second 😮

The story comes with a few well-defined architecture diagrams that’ll help you understand the bottom of the approach they used.

If you are working on a high-scale application, you’d like to read this one.

This Reddit thread is a goldmine for scaling Laravel applications as it contains some super actionable tips and suggestions.

Long story short - a startup got increased demand and one of its engineers worked on scaling the application to serve more customers. As he ran into a bunch of issues, he started a thread on Reddit and the community jumped in on fixing that - together.

I’m amazed by the level of engagement Laravel’s community has, never seen anything similar. If you want to learn more on that don’t miss Adeva’s fireside chat with Taylor.

Erik Bernhardsson (who works as a CTO at Better) has prepared a detailed, mathematical study on how to hire effectively. He shares a few formulas that show how a company can get the most value out of the hiring process.

The story contains a few case studies and some tips on how you can adjust the model to make it work for your team.

Christina Maslach (professor of psychology) explains how bosses should always help prevent burnout in their employees.

In her framework, burnout stems from not only large workloads but also lack of control, community, and/or reward and values mismatches.

John Blair (Partner Engineer at Netflix) worked on the most unusual bug he has faced during his career.

He shares details on the approach he took to uncover the mystery and find the root cause of a quite interesting and unique technical problem. An incredible story on true software engineering.

If you are using GitHub, you might have noticed some of the new visuals on their website.

There was some buzz for that in the community, especially for the globe animation they came up with. They decided to write a story on how they built such a masterpiece.

According to Sumo Logic’s research of the 2,100 companies that it monitors, Redis is the number one database in AWS.

Why?

Part of the reason behind this is the pandemic, part of it is the fast adoption of IaaS. Read the entire story here.

Dr. Brian Primack states that it only takes half a year to be highly likely to develop a serious case of depression if we spend more than 5 hours a day on social media. 😱

Brian’s study focuses on the link between depression and social media. It is the first large, national study of its kind, and an interesting read if you want to dig into the data behind it.

AWS re:invent undoubtedly became the #1 tech event worldwide. Andy Jassy the CEO of AWS will open the January session with a keynote presentation. There are 240 sessions lined up on different topics I’m sure you’d enjoy.