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Animesh Gaitonde

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Animesh Gaitonde writes Engineering At Scale, a personal blog at engineeringatscale.substack.com about programming and systems. Since 2023, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 28 times, most often “Uber CacheFront – 40M requests per second”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-08, and you can follow it by feed.

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Links on Hacker News per year · peak 23 in 2024

Weekly column simplifying databases, system design, architecture, and engineering careers with easy explanations, valuable insights, and expert advice.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Uber CacheFront – 40M requests per second
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-03-04

What Hacker News says?

  1. Submitted How QUIC is displacing TCP for speed as a story · 149 points

    HN discussion
  2. Submitted Redis – The Swiss Army Knife of Datastores as a story · 5 points

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  3. Submitted Uber CacheFront – 40M requests per second as a story · 4 points

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  4. Submitted CacheFront: A centralized caching solution for Uber's Docstore at scale as a story · 3 points

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  5. Submitted Vector Databases: Databases for the AI Era as a story · 3 points

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  6. Submitted Towards modern development of cloud applications as a story · 3 points

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  7. Submitted API Pagination: Techniques, Real-World Applications and Best Practices as a story · 2 points

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  8. Submitted Unleashing the Power of Change Data Capture (CDC) for Real-Time Data Syncing as a story · 2 points

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  9. Submitted Designing RealTime Collaborative Systems: Deep Dive into Mouse Pointer Tracking as a story · 2 points

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  10. Submitted XFaaS: Meta's Scalable and Cost-Efficient Serverless Platform as a story · 2 points

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  11. Submitted Dive Deep into Database Sharding Strategies as a story · 2 points

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  12. Submitted Towards modern development of cloud applications as a story · 2 points

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  13. Submitted Vector Databases: Databases for the AI Era as a story · 2 points

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  14. Submitted How Discord solved the hot partition problem? as a story · 2 points

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  15. Submitted System Design Fundamentals: What Is a Load Balancer? as a story · 2 points

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  16. Submitted Cache Stampede Prevention: Distributed Locking, Pub/Sub, and Request Coalescing as a story · 1 points

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  17. Submitted Designing Instagram's Video Uploads: Optimizing for Low Latency and Scalability as a story · 1 points

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  18. Submitted How Zerodha Scaled Reporting with 7M PostgreSQL Tables as a story · 1 points

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  19. Submitted Mastering System Design Interviews: 5 Key Tips for Success as a story · 1 points

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  20. Submitted Eight Fallacies of Distributed Computing as a story · 1 points

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  21. Submitted Discord solved the hot partition problem as a story · 1 points

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  22. Submitted Towards modern development of cloud applications as a story · 1 points

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  23. Submitted Towards modern development of cloud applications as a story · 1 points

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  24. Submitted Towards modern development of cloud applications as a story · 1 points

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  25. Submitted System Design Fundamentals: What Is a Load Balancer? as a story · 1 points

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  26. Submitted What Makes Redis Fast? as a story · 1 points

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  27. Submitted System Design Fundamentals: What Is a Load Balancer? as a story · 1 points

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  28. Submitted Introduction to Multi-Tenant Architecture as a story · 1 points

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