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8 Reasons Why WhatsApp Was Able to Support 50 Billion Messages a Day With Only 32 Engineers
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Aug 27, 2023
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How PayPal Was Able to Support a Billion Transactions per Day With Only 8 Virtual Machines
Dec 26, 2023
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How Stripe Prevents Double Payment Using Idempotent API
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How Uber Computes ETA at Half a Million Requests per Second
Dec 3, 2023
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How YouTube Was Able to Support 2.49 Billion Users With MySQL
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