Announcing Twinagle: Twirp and Protobuf for Finagle
SoundCloud Backstage Blog12 Jun 2020
A previous post on this blog ended with the following paragraph: “We might also replace JSON with a more efficient serialization protocol like protocol buffers.
SoundCloud Backstage Blog
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50%Stretch Opportunities for Engineers
SoundCloud Backstage Blog20 May 2020
Stretch opportunities are tasks or projects that are a bit beyond your current skill or knowledge level and that allow you to improve and learn new things. They are also essential for growth.
Open Sourcing Intervene
SoundCloud Backstage Blog5 May 2020
A little while back, the web team at SoundCloud got an urgent report that our upload page looked weird in the US. Web engineering is based in Berlin, and it looked fine outside the US.
Periskop: Exception Monitoring Service
SoundCloud Backstage Blog16 Mar 2020
Periskop is an exception monitoring service that we built here at SoundCloud. It was designed with microservice environments in mind, but it’s also useful for long-running services in general.
How (Not) to Build Datasets and Consume Data at Your Company
SoundCloud Backstage Blog3 Mar 2020
The topic of datasets is not new, and they have been successfully used at SoundCloud for analytics purposes for a long time.