Google and Industry Partners Announce Agentic Resource Discovery Specification for AI Agents
Google and industry partners announced Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) Specification, an open standard for publishing, discovering, and verifying AI …
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Google and industry partners announced Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) Specification, an open standard for publishing, discovering, and verifying AI …
DoorDash details the architecture behind Ask DoorDash, its AI-powered conversational shopping assistant, combining LLMs, specialized AI agents, MCP-ba…
Airbnb engineers detailed Sitar-agent, a Kubernetes sidecar for dynamic configuration delivery across tens of thousands of pods, processing updates se…
Netflix engineers introduced dynamic partition splitting for Cassandra to address wide partitions in time series workloads. The metadata-driven approa…
Instacart redesigned its personalized marketing system using a configuration-driven multi-tenant architecture on Storefront Pro. The system replaces r…
Slack has outlined how its AI serving infrastructure evolved through four distinct phases, moving from a self-managed Amazon SageMaker deployment to a…
Atlassian details the Forge billing platform built for usage-based pricing across its cloud ecosystem. It processes large-scale usage events with corr…
Block, Inc. describes migrating ~450 JVM repositories into a monorepo across Cash App and Square engineering to reduce dependency drift and coordinati…
Martin Kleppmann, an associate professor at Cambridge and author of Designing Data-Intensive Applications, discusses the evolution of data systems ove…
Lyft details a new pickup experience to improve reliability in gated communities, where 25–30% of rides face routing and access challenges. The system…
Pinterest introduced MIQPS, a URL normalization system that identifies which query parameters affect page identity using rendered content fingerprints…
Uber introduced a high-throughput financial ledger processing system designed to handle hot account write contention at scale. Using 250ms batching, R…
Google has shared details of its fleet wide large scale A/B experimentation system designed to standardize experiment assignment, exposure logging, an…
Shopify introduced GraphQL Cardinal, a new execution engine replacing depth-first traversal with breadth-first execution. The redesign improves large-…
n fan-out microservice architectures, slow-but-completing requests accumulate across services and drive p99 latency far higher than per-service metric…
Uber updates its Uber Eats Home Feed recommendation system using near real-time user sequence features and a Generative Recommender model. The system …
Airbnb has redesigned its identity system to support privacy-first social features in Experiences. The platform introduces context-specific profiles t…
Netflix improves Apache Druid performance with interval aware caching, serving 84% of analytics results from cache and reducing query load by 33%. The…
OpenAI introduces a WebSocket-based execution mode for its Responses API to improve agentic workflow performance in coding agents and real-time AI sys…
Platform engineering succeeds when reliability and ergonomics reinforce each other rather than compete. This article explores three foundational pilla…