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Small pieces of code as solutions to specific problems in large companies

chat-to.dev
submitted
7 mos ago
bygorpo85totechnology

Summary

Twitter published a small code snippet related to reducing the memory consumption of the Garbage Collector. GitHub detailed a race condition problem in their notification system. LinkedIn shared a code snippet about how they implemented a caching strategy using Redis.

Airbnb: Airbnb's engineering team addressed a slow rendering problem in its interactive maps. They published a JavaScript code snippet showing how they made optimizations to Leaflet.js.

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8 Comments

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iareunique
7 mos ago
Anybody know if Twitter is still on RoR or did they shift?
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kaiserseahorse
7 mos ago
Looks like they jumped ship in 2018
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iareunique
7 mos ago
RoR had it's heyday but we've moved onto better things. Not surprised about this as at all
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kaiserseahorse
7 mos ago
Wouldn't necessarily say "better"
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joseph
7 mos ago
Really thought it was sooner than that
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blackbeardsship
7 mos ago
Makes me laugh that my linkedin feed is still terrible
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gorpo85OP
7 mos ago
:p
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joseph
7 mos ago
Always amazing the kind of things you need to solve for at scale