
Inspirations
Ideas, concepts, and resources that inspire my development work and shape my thinking about technology and software craftsmanship.


How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engineers
Instagram's guiding principles and tech stack explained simply

Why Rust is the most admired language among developers

How Discord Stores Trillion of Messages
Engineer Bo Ingram shares insight into how Discord shoulders its traffic and provides a platform for our users to communicate.

How do database indexes work?

How OpenAI trained ChatGPT
Plus, how Meta integrated Raft with MySQL, lessons learned at Slack while building on AWS GovCloud and How Nike's bot detection works

The Best Engineering Blogs
A great engineering blog is both entertaining and educational. In this list, we've captured 30 of our favorite engineering blogs.

The Complete Microservices Guide
Learn the art of scalable and resilient systems through 'The Complete Microservices Guide.
bradtraversy/design-resources-for-developers
Curated list of design and UI resources from stock photos, web templates, CSS frameworks, UI libraries, tools and much more

Rebuilding our tech stack for the new Facebook.com
Facebook.com launched in 2004 as a simple, server-rendered PHP website. Over time, we’ve added layer upon layer of new technology to deliver more interactive features.