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By: Rajiv Shringi, Oleksii Tkachuk, Kartik Sathyanarayanan In our previous blog post, we introduced Netflix’s TimeSeries Abstraction, a distributed service designed to store and query large volumes of temporal event data with low millisecond latencies. Today, we’re excited to present the Distributed Counter Abstraction. This counting service, built on top of the TimeSeries Abstraction, enables […]
All software is built atop a core set of assumptions. As new code is added and new use-cases emerge, software can become unmoored from those assumptions. When this happens, a fundamental tension arises between revisiting those foundational assumptions—which usually entails a lot of work—or trying to support new behavior atop the existing architecture. The latter […]
I take it, if you’re reading this, you’ve made the decision or at the very least are toying with the idea of building a Zoom app. That’s great news for many Zoom users like myself who rely on the additional functionality and features these apps give our daily in and out of meeting experiences, but […]