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Robinhood
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Robinhood is the company blog at robinhood.engineering, writing about business and programming. Since 2017, 19 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “Why Robinhood Uses Airbnb's Airflow”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Robinhood's engineering blog as a source on the company's tech stack and its move to Kubernetes deployments, in discussions of its outages. The posts are cited, not judged.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Stay up-to-date on the latest company news and content with the official blog of Robinhood, the company on a mission to democratize finance for all.
Most-linked posts?
- Why Robinhood Uses Airbnb's Airflow2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-05-11
- /building-an-application-deployment-platform-on-kubernetes-f6af367d1e052 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-03-10
What Hacker News says?
Since it's Day 2, def appears to be an architectural scalability issue, not some bugs. Quick scan of their engineering blog shows the following stack: -Zookeeper, Kafka, Spark, Airflow, Faust (Kafka Streams in Python) -Kubernetes (was/is SALT + Terraform) -AWS Aurora, PG, ES, Influx -Presto via AWS Athena, Redshift -homegrown solutions for a data lake & managing k8s microservices Fwiw, their team does appear to have…
Comment linking /creating-a-sev-process-that-scales-with-robinhood-4b433f9c439b
on “Robinhood Is Down Again?”Submitted Faust: Stream Processing for Python as a story · 11 points
HN discussionDisclosure: I work on Astronomer.io, an open source Airflow platform and SaaS, and also contribute to Airflow. IMO the pros / cons are really relative to what you're comparing it to and what your workflow needs are. We've written some guides on "Airflow vs ___" [1] (currently AWS Glue and Oozie). Feel free to email me (in profile) if you'd like to see a comparison to something else. I like these two posts on Airflow…
Comment linking /why-robinhood-uses-airflow-aed13a9a90c8
on “Data Engineering Patterns with Apache Airflow [video]”Submitted Why Robinhood Uses Airbnb's Airflow as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThey recently had a blog about moving to kubernetes https://robinhood.engineering/building-an-application-deploy...
Comment linking /building-an-application-deployment-platform-on-kubernetes-f6af367d1e05
on “Robinhood’s third outage may point to deeper problems in its tech stack”Submitted How We Built a Better News System at Robinhood as a story · 3 points
HN discussionyou might be right: https://robinhood.engineering/building-an-application-deploy...
Comment linking /building-an-application-deployment-platform-on-kubernetes-f6af367d1e05
on “Robinhood’s third outage may point to deeper problems in its tech stack”Submitted Beautiful animations using Android ConstraintLayout as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Robinhood – Scaling Confidently with the Load and Fault Team as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted We scaled Robinhood’s brokerage system for greater reliability as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Robinhood: The old guard of investing is at it again as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Upgrading and Scaling Airflow at Robinhood as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Robinhood: Scaling and Load Testing as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tracking Temporal Data at Robinhood (2017) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fresher Data Lake on AWS S3 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Engineering Onboarding – Built to Scale as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Elk at Robinhood as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reflection's on Robinhood's Growth as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Increasing Efficiency and Confidence with Project Apollo at Robinhood Engg as a story · 1 points
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