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Uber Case Study - Using Node.jsI was looking around for case studies about companies using Node and ran across this one. Uber's architecture involves Node. This discussio… Started by Michael Levin |
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Know Node?If you're interested in Node.js, this is a great starting point. Ryan Dahl is the author. This is a video of his intro presentation. http:/… Started by Michael Levin |
0 | Feb 18, 2017 |
Welcome to JavaScript Village!You're going to love it here! Like minded people and a mind boggling assortment of architectures to choose from and learn to master. Someon… Started by Michael Levin |
0 | Feb 18, 2016 |
Happy 10th year, JCertif!
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Grafana Rearchitects Loki with Kafka and Ships a CLI to Bring Observability Into Coding Agent
At GrafanaCON 2026 in Barcelona, Grafana Labs announced Grafana 13 with the new Loki Kafka-backed architecture at the ingestion layer and the AI Observability in Grafana Cloud to monitor and evaluate AI systems in real time. In particular, the new CLI called GCX was announced, designed to surface Grafana Cloud data inside agentic development environments.
By Claudio MasoloHow Observability and Telemetry Can Enhance the Practice of Software Engineering
Observability must evolve with serverless, event-driven architectures. OpenTelemetry can decouple telemetry from vendors, letting developers emit consistent, high-quality data that explains real system behavior. Shared vocabularies and good telemetry make debugging faster and improve reliability, speed, and developer productivity.
By Ben LindersPresentation: How to Build an Exchange: Sub Millisecond Response Times and 24/7 Uptimes in the Cloud
Frank Yu shares Coinbase’s engineering philosophy for building resilient, fair, and fast financial exchanges. He explains the power of a single-threaded architecture combined with the Raft consensus algorithm to maintain 24/7 availability. He discusses how determinism enables zero-downtime rolling deployments and the ability to replay production logs for perfect bug reproduction.
By Frank YuDropbox Collaborates with GitHub to Reduce Monorepo Size from 87GB to 20GB
Dropbox reduced its backend monorepo from 87GB to 20GB by optimizing Git delta compression in collaboration with GitHub. The changes improved clone times, CI performance, and developer velocity, highlighting how repository storage inefficiencies can impact large-scale engineering workflows.
By Leela KumiliPresentation: Panel: Building a Culture that Works
The panelists share insights on evolving company culture. They discuss leveraging feedback loops, lending social capital, and the friction between legacy bureaucracy and agile engineering. The panel explains how to maintain cohesion in remote teams and use interviews to uncover the true "unmanicured" culture of a firm.
By Nicky Wrightson, Suhail Patel, Lesley Cordero, Matthew Card, Natan Žabkar Nordberg
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