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How Netflix Scaled Its Real-Time Service Map

Netflix has described how it redesigned the streaming pipeline behind Service Topology, its real-time service dependencies map, to support production scale.

  • Employed Apache Pekko Streams to manage backpressure, preventing dropped records or incomplete maps.
  • Replaced gRPC with server-sent events (SSE) for lighter-weight, reactive backpressure management.

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Donut Panic 🍩 — Building an Interactive CSS-Only Donut

This is a submission for Frontend Challenge - Comfort Food Edition, CSS Art . 🍩 Inspiration I write about WordPress plugins and PHP standards for a living, so when DEV dropped a "Comfort Food" theme…

  • Users create custom donuts with CSS and minimal JavaScript
  • Donut components include layered rings, glaze, hole, and shine
  • Serve animation moves donut from kitchen to plate with easing

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I Built a Signed Webhook Receiver for Cross-Server Communication

Sometimes your application can reach an external service from one server, but not from another. I ran into this problem while working on one of my projects.

  • Signed Webhook Receiver enables secure server-to-server communication.
  • Facilitates data transfer between application components as webhook.
  • Acts as controlled proxy for servers in different network environments.

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An app store for your app store

Good morning, hope you had a great weekend. Today I’m reading about Anthony Bourdain’s early years , depicted through the film Tony releasing this week, listening to Broken Social Scene’s new album…

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