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Etsy's long running engineering blog, which helped popularise continuous deployment and blameless postmortems. Recent posts cover migrating database sharding to Vitess, using LLMs for search relevance and inventory understanding, prefetching for performance and faster experimentation. A good example of a large marketplace solving scale problems pragmatically.
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Etsy's long running engineering blog, which helped popularise continuous deployment and blameless postmortems. Recent posts cover migrating database sharding to Vitess, using LLMs for search relevance and inventory understanding, prefetching for performance and faster experimentation. A good example of a large marketplace solving scale problems pragmatically.
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