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Netflix Reworks Conductor for 420 Million Monthly Workflow Executions and 10X Larger Workflows

Netflix has reworked its Conductor workflow orchestration engine to handle larger workloads, increasing supported workflow size from about 2,500 to…

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JioHotstar Explains the Distributed Engineering Behind Personalized Ad Requests at Streaming Scale

JioHotstar explains the distributed architecture behind its real-time ad request workflow, covering ad decisioning, waterfall tiering, pacing algori…

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DoorDash Uses Envoy and Valkey for a 1.5M RPS Proxy Cache with 99.99999% Availability

DoorDash has developed Entity Cache, a transparent proxy caching platform built on Envoy and Valkey to reduce redundant service-to-service requests…

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How DoorDash Built an AI Shopping Assistant That Doesn’t Rely on the LLM Alone

DoorDash details the architecture behind Ask DoorDash, its AI-powered conversational shopping assistant, combining LLMs, specialized AI agents, MCP-…

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