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Animesh Gaitonde
Personal blog · engineeringatscale.substack.comprogrammingsystems
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.
Weekly column simplifying databases, system design, architecture, and engineering careers with easy explanations, valuable insights, and expert advice.
Most-linked posts?
- Uber CacheFront – 40M requests per second2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-03-04
What Hacker News says?
Submitted How QUIC is displacing TCP for speed as a story · 149 points
HN discussionSubmitted Redis – The Swiss Army Knife of Datastores as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Uber CacheFront – 40M requests per second as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted CacheFront: A centralized caching solution for Uber's Docstore at scale as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Vector Databases: Databases for the AI Era as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Towards modern development of cloud applications as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted API Pagination: Techniques, Real-World Applications and Best Practices as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Unleashing the Power of Change Data Capture (CDC) for Real-Time Data Syncing as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Designing RealTime Collaborative Systems: Deep Dive into Mouse Pointer Tracking as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted XFaaS: Meta's Scalable and Cost-Efficient Serverless Platform as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dive Deep into Database Sharding Strategies as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Towards modern development of cloud applications as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Vector Databases: Databases for the AI Era as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Discord solved the hot partition problem? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted System Design Fundamentals: What Is a Load Balancer? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cache Stampede Prevention: Distributed Locking, Pub/Sub, and Request Coalescing as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Designing Instagram's Video Uploads: Optimizing for Low Latency and Scalability as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Zerodha Scaled Reporting with 7M PostgreSQL Tables as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mastering System Design Interviews: 5 Key Tips for Success as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Eight Fallacies of Distributed Computing as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Discord solved the hot partition problem as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Towards modern development of cloud applications as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Towards modern development of cloud applications as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Towards modern development of cloud applications as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted System Design Fundamentals: What Is a Load Balancer? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Makes Redis Fast? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted System Design Fundamentals: What Is a Load Balancer? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Introduction to Multi-Tenant Architecture as a story · 1 points
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