Engineering at Depop
Engineering at the London based resale marketplace, with focused cost and performance stories: cutting its largest Spark pipeline's cost by 52 percent, saving resources through smarter heap management, what Kafka's at least once delivery means in practice and a 24x data retrieval cost optimisation. Posts are occasional, but each comes with concrete numbers.
Guide
System Design
Depop
Ongoing
Intermediate
Free
Engineering at the London based resale marketplace, with focused cost and performance stories: cutting its largest Spark pipeline's cost by 52 percent, saving resources through smarter heap management, what Kafka's at least once delivery means in practice and a 24x data retrieval cost optimisation. Posts are occasional, but each comes with concrete numbers.
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