Tag: Scaling

This article introduces the centering and scaling concepts. With a real-world use case, I explain the advantages of the center and scale the data. We dive into simple calculations and explanations by looking at Scikit-Learn ready-made methods. Technically, we compare the MinMaxScaler, Standar...

In the ever-evolving world of cloud computing, the concept of hyperscale has become increasingly important. Organizations are constantly seeking ways to scale their applications quickly and efficiently to meet growing demands. Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been a pioneer in this field, and one of th...

It all started with a question I asked our senior software engineer: “Forget the speed of communication. Is it really better for you to develop communication in gRPC instead of REST?” The answer I didn’t want to get came immediately: “Absolutely yes.” Before I...

Monolithic mobile app codebases and stories about making them modularized is a common topic of discussion now-a-days. There are articles written on this from Slack, Square, Reddit, Robinhood and many more. Here is a series of posts that provides a systematic way and a design...

When I first joined Taxfix in September 2020, our product-facing engineering teams had already identified domain separation as one of the main challenges to scale the existing architecture. Today, our microservices capture almost 15 diverse business domains and — based on our interna...

It’s been more than 12 months since I last shared a StarBerry update. In that time, we launched our second game, Merge Mayor, to players worldwide, closed a 5M€ funding round, and moved to a shiny new office in Berlin. We’ve been busy. Fuel for growth  — 5M€ fundi...

2018 was a record setting year for Klaviyo and also a year of intense growth for Klaviyo engineering as we scaled our product and our teams to new heights. On the product side, we were excited to increase our pace of shipping compelling new features and innovations. These include everythin...

In this episode of Startuprad.io, host Jörn “Joe” Menninger interviews Jenny von Podewils, the co-CEO and co-founder of Leapsome. Leapsome is a company that helps organizations build exceptional teams based on data. Their clients include Spotify, Monday.com, Bolt, Nortvolt and other...

In fact, neither is your new project — the one you were SO excited about that you worked your butt off, and moved yourself and your (beautiful new) family to the other side of the world, just for the chance to lead. My boss’s attitude put the rain on that parade. And (sigh) rightly so...

More often that not, the RDBMS database will be the primary scalability bottleneck in your growing application. This is due to RDBMS’s natural resistance to horizontal scaling. Several strategies have evolved to mitigate this very problem, including read-replicas, partitioning, sharding, and o...

People can “get by” in a new language with only a couple of thousand words. So why don’t today’s systems scale to understand language? An obvious way to scale a system to use human language is to start with a machine that has some of the capabilities of a human brain and t...