#1: Building, launching, and scaling ChatGPT Images
- This article provides a behind-the-scenes look at the development of ChatGPT’s image generation feature during its viral launch.
- I think the biggest takeaways were the latency vs availability decision and importance of SREs and chaos engineering, especially with ever-increasing internet traffic.
- It’s interesting to see how OpenAI is able to make almost every other product launch so viral.
#2: How Facebook Live Scaled to a Billion Users
- Similar to the first article, this one also talks about scalability and reliability of a service.
- It’s hard to believe Facebook Live having 1B+ DAUs, but surely it has a pretty complex architecture behind it.
- A program management article, regarding issues with standups in larger teams, something I too experienced in the past. My team also tried the different approaches mentioned in the article.
- What worked out for us ultimately, was to have standups in smaller project-based groups within the team, and then have a biweekly sync with the whole team.
#4: Mastering Microservices with a former Uber and Netflix architect
- AI-generated summary of this podcast is here.
- I haven’t worked on microservices orchestration yet (AWS Step Functions).