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Rewriting a Monolith Without Stopping the Business
Ahmed Khan, CTO, Shiply
Takeaway: Feature flags and strangler patterns that actually reduced risk.
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Episode #47 · Published Dec 15, 2024
Scaling a Real-Time Analytics Engine to 10B Events/Day
48 min · with Jane Doe (Co-founder & CTO, MetricFlow)
We dive into ingestion pipelines, late-arriving data, cost controls, and when to shard (and when not to). Jane shares the architectural decisions that took MetricFlow from prototype to processing billions of events daily.
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Key takeaways:
- • When to choose event sourcing vs traditional databases
- • Cost optimization strategies that saved 40% on infrastructure
- • Building resilient pipelines that handle late-arriving data
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