How Tinder’s API Gateway Handles A Billion Swipes Per Day
Other than Tinder’s custom API gateway implementation, a good primer on how gateways work.
Bookmarks RSS feed
-
-
Your Career Needs a Vision, Not More Goals
Deep, deep thoughts about vision, goals, and how people commonly confuse them. What beauty of an article! The central concept is similar to Cal Newport’s lifestyle-centric planning, but it’s nice to revisit it in the context of a software engineer.
-
The Reality of Tech Interviews in 2025
A detailed look at the grim reality of tech job market and a stark reminder about preparing oneself for investing heavily in interview prep. The world is not fair, so you gotta play the game!
-
The 10x “overemployed” engineer
Sensational!
-
EP171: The Generative AI Tech Stack
The GenAI tech stack diagram is a great introduction to the tooling around writing GenAI-powered software.
-
The Heart of Software Engineering Still Beats - Annie Vella
Annie provides a good mental model to work with AI coding assistants without losing the soul of software engineering.
-
The Silent Killer Of Motivation And What To Do About It
A reminder about the hazards of becoming a bottleneck in your org/work/life because you are too good at something. I was a “human search engine” for applied artificial intelligence back in 2017 and that led me to nowhere.
-
How Spotify Uses GenAI and ML to Annotate a Hundred Million Tracks
An interesting take on a balanced approach between the two extremes of 100% manual and 100% automated work. Also an interesting case study in breaking the silos by creating a central team with shared processes.
-
Software engineering with LLMs in 2025: reality check
I’m surprised to see veteran software engineers recommending LLMs for coding. I was expecting some critique from these folks or mixed opinions at best. Perhaps more veterans could be interviewed with differing opinions. I’d also love to see more startups with limited success with LLMs.
-
The Power of Principled Thinking
A case study on how the team behind Linear, the project management app, prioritize quality through their zero-bug principle.