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Presenting to Engineers
Presenting a design at the level of mechanism, including the alternatives rejected and the parts you are still unsure about.
Presenting to Executives
Leading with the decision and the business consequence, at a level of abstraction where technology names do not appear.
Instagram's Early Scaling
Instagram reached tens of millions of users on Django and PostgreSQL with a handful of engineers, by deliberately choosing boring technology and doing the simple thing first.
Trade-off Analysis
Making the costs of an architectural choice explicit and comparable, rather than presenting a recommendation as if it were free.
WhatsApp's Small-Team Scale
WhatsApp served hundreds of millions of users with a few dozen engineers by matching one technology choice precisely to the workload and refusing to add anything else.
In the October 2021 Meta outage, engineers reportedly struggled to physically access equipment because the access-control systems were also down. What class of dependency is that, and how do you find yours?
The case, as publicly reported On 4 October 2021, a command issued during routine backbone capacity assessment took down all connections between Meta's data cen
Instagram served 14 million users with three engineers on Django and Postgres. What does that tell you about how to choose an architecture for a new product?
What the interviewer is testing Whether you can identify the binding constraint. For most products it is not traffic. What Instagram actually did Their 2011 pos