How Pinterest runs Kafka at scale

Pinterest runs one of the largest Kafka deployments in the cloud. We use Apache Kafka extensively as a message bus to transport data and to power real-time streaming services, ultimately helping more than 250 million Pinners around the world discover and do what they love.

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Tricks with JavaScript Destructuring

In order to understand the newer destructuring syntax introduced in ES6, let’s cover the “old” way. I’ll mention this a couple times throughout, but these are optional syntaxes that MAY help.

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Trello vs. Jira: Compared From A Developer’s Perspective

Software production today isn’t the same as 20 years ago. Software has become more and more complex, with distributed teams literally all around the globe, and reliant on people specialized only in a specific part of the process.

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event-stream vulnerability explained

If you work with JavaScript at all, you probably saw a ton of noise yesterday about a vulnerability in the event-stream npm package. Unfortunately, the actual forensic analysis of the issue is buried under 600+ comments on the GitHub issue, most of which are just people flaming about the state of npm, open source, etc.

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How we reduced our initial JS/CSS size by 67%

We have been working on reducing the amount of bytes that we send to all Fider users. Being a web application built with React, we have focused on JS and CSS. On this post we share our learnings, some concepts and suggestions on how you can do the same with your web application.

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Functional Programming Principles in Javascript

After a long time learning and working with object-oriented programming, I took a step back to think about system complexity. Doing some research, I found functional programming concepts like immutability and pure function.

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Creating Horizontal Scrolling Containers the Right Way [CSS Grid]

Ever since Netflix became a household name we’ve been scrolling sideways in mobile layouts. Instead of stacking everything on top of each other, horizontal scrolling containers (or lists) have become a common layout practice, as it helps reduce the vertical space of devices with smaller screens.

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