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This Article was originally written by Daniel Schauenberg on Code as Craft. Reposted with permission. Capacity planning for the web and API clusters powering etsy.com has historically

Airbnb began in 2008 as a monolithic Rails application serving the simple purpose of listing homes for rental. Over time, the number of listings increased dramatically, as did the number

“We’re not always in control of other people’s networks.” CDN stands for content delivery network. A content delivery network is a system of distributed servers that delivers

“JavaScript as a language is evolving year over year with new implementations and new language features, and we need to make sure we stay on top of those.” Code analysis tools can

“The most important thing behind it is to think about developers in the way that product people think about consumers, and that the first time experience of your API needs to be