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We’ve been working to bring components of Quip’s technology into Slack with the canvas feature, while also maintaining the stand-alone Quip product. Quip’s backend, which powers both Quip and canvas, is written in Python. This is the story of a tricky bug we encountered last July and the lessons we learned along the way about […]
tl;dr On August 28, 2024, the Department of Telecommunications [“DoT”], Ministry of Communications [“MoC”], released the draft Telecommunications (Critical Telecommunication Infrastructure) Rules, 2024 [“draft CTI Rules”]. First published in the e-Gazette on August 29, 2024, the MoC also released three other draft Rules alongside the draft CTI Rules, covering internet shutdown, telecom interception, and cyber […]
At Slack, we manage tens of thousands of EC2 instances that host a variety of services, including our Vitess databases, Kubernetes workers, and various components of the Slack application. The majority of these instances run on some version of Ubuntu, while a portion operates on Amazon Linux. With such a vast infrastructure, the critical question […]
ISLAMABAD: The federal government on Wednesday withdrew its decision to give a quarter of a billion rupees to a private foundation for an infrastructure project, which it had earlier allocated in a non-transparent manner while using the inflation-bitten taxpayers’ money. The government had allocated funds for The Noorani Foundation (TNF) without setting any criteria and […]
by: Xiangmin Liang, Sivakumar Bhavanari, Amre Shakim A deep dive into the streaming aspect of the Lambda architecture framework that optimizes how data is consumed from system-of-record data stores and updates secondary read-optimized stores at Airbnb. In our previous blog post we introduced the motivation and high-level architecture of Riverbed. As a recap, Riverbed is […]
10 min read · Jul 31, 2024 Airbnb’s Use of A New Flink platform evolved from Apache Hadoop® Yarn At Airbnb, Apache Flink was introduced in 2018 as a supplementary solution for stream processing. It ran alongside Apache Spark™ Streaming for several years before transitioning to become the primary stream processing platform. In this blog […]
Incrementally modernizing our frontend infrastructure to roll out the latest React features without downgrades Airbnb’s frontend recently reached a major milestone: all of our web surfaces have been upgraded from React 16 to React 18, the current major version of React¹. This was a big project for a product with many surfaces, including Guest and […]
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