Yelp Engineering Blog
Yelp's regularly updated engineering blog on zero downtime Cassandra upgrades, cutting data lake storage costs, server driven UI kept consistent across four platforms, build tooling migrations and machine learning features such as real time dish recognition. Good breadth across backend, frontend and data, with honest numbers on what each change saved.
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Yelp's regularly updated engineering blog on zero downtime Cassandra upgrades, cutting data lake storage costs, server driven UI kept consistent across four platforms, build tooling migrations and machine learning features such as real time dish recognition. Good breadth across backend, frontend and data, with honest numbers on what each change saved.
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