My greatest discovery
As someone keen on learning a lot, I have a habit of going down rabbit holes until I understand how certain concepts or systems work. This usually leads me to some interesting sources of information, and in this case I was pretty amazed. It all started when I was researching Instagram’s usage of django and stumbled upon a reddit post from 2019 which had a similar topic. I then found a redditor in the comment referencing a blog which was supposed to explain the architecture of Instagram’s server. Being inquinstive, I clicked the link to follow it and to my surprise it took me to a medium blog which was written by the instagram team. I was initially skeptical, but after snooping around some more blog posts, I realised that it was the real deal. So then I thought, “if instagram has this, there should be a host of other companies that also do so” So, I headed to ChatGPT to get some more info and sure enough, it responded with a list of companies. Some of which included;
- Meta(formerly known as facebook)
- X(formarly known as twitter)
- Google Deepmind
- Slack
- Spotify
- Github
- Grammarly
- Netfix
- Boston Dynamics and much more
These blogs are good sources of information and a great way to peak into the inner workings of enterprise grade systems. They contain various concepts in software engineering, ranging from frontend-architectures and large-scale API design to recommender systems and machine learning models, framework/library tips and more. Hope whoever stumbles upon this, finds it helpful.