Slack engineering·4yRecommend API
Recommend API allows us to quickly bootstrap new recommendation use cases behind an API which is easily accessible to engineers at Slack. These recommenders reuse a common set of infrastructure for every part of the recommendation engine. This has allowed us to deliver a number of different recommendation models across the product, driving improved customer experience.
Quastor Daily·4yHow Tinder Built Their Own API Gateway
Tinder is the most popular dating app in the world with over 75 million monthly active users. The app is owned by the Match Group, a conglomerate that also owns Match.com, OkCupid, Hinge and over 40 other dating apps. Tinder’s backend consists of over 500 microservices, which the components are - Routes.
DEV·4yTech communities you should join! (online and in person)
Software development is such a challenging field that it’s almost impossible to succeed in it without a support system. Having someone who can guide, mentor, and refer you will significantly increase your chances of success in this field.
Towards Dev·3yFastAPI Production hints
FastAPI Production hints FastAPI is a modern, fast (high-performance) web framework for building APIs with Python. In the last 3 years, it has been very popular among back-end developers that are using Python. It is asynchronous and fast because of mainly uses Startlette.
AWS Tip·3yTake 6 Minutes to Create a free OpenAI GPT-3 bot via a Slack with Serverless in Lolo.
Take 6 minutes to create a free OpenAI GPT-3 bot via a Slack with Serverless in Lolo. OpenAI invites everyone to test ChatGPT, a new AI-powered chatbot so let’s use it to quickly build a Slack app to communicate with it for free. The Lolo app is free.
Pointer·4yjhuangtw/xg2xg: by ex-googlers, for ex-googlers
A handy lookup table of similar technology and services to help ex-googlers survive the real world. Please do not list any confidential projects! For a working example of (some) of these technologies integrated together. See also: System Design Primer, The Hadoop Ecosystem Table, Map AWS services to GCP products and MapAWs services toGCP products.
Quastor Daily·4yHow Stack Overflow Handles DDoS Attacks
The steps Stack Exchange took to mitigate these attacks and make them ineffective in the future - Tech SnippetsHow Slack uses Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) A Curated List of Software and Architecture Related Design Patterns Plus, we have a solution to our last coding interview question.
Laravel News·4yDiving into Notifications
With Laravel, you can deliver to multiple channels from one notification. Laravel Notification Channels has a lot of information you can use for alternative channels. To start with, we should be sure to test what we have already built. We are faking the notification driver in Laravel so that the notification isn't routed to anyone. We then create a user we want to notify and resolve our logic from the container - abstracting this logic. The logic makes testing easier.
Hacker News·4ySomeone is pretending to be me.
A person/company sets up fake Upwork profiles of real people. They apply to jobs in hopes to get an interview using that fake profile. They find victims on GitHub who are willing to go along with this. The response I got I'm not sure how to react - an apology for assuming my identity which is absolutely insane.
