Tech Blogs Digest 15.12 - 21.12

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This week

1. 🏗️ Architecture - Scaling to millions transactions daily, performance optimizations to achieve low latency, and adding authentication to a Kafka client

2. 🧮 Data Science - AI music star analysis, factory land usage compliance checks, and detecting a web of fraud companies

3. 💻 AI-assisted coding - The limits and strengths of AI-assisted testing

4. 📊 Data - Repartitioning a 1.1 TB default partition

5. 🤖 LLMs in production - Fine-tuning techniques, extracting training data from a model and defending against it, and creating a GPT-like model from scratch

6. 🛡️ Security - The king of encryption protocols for tiny devices, removing malware from a pirate streaming app, and more

7. 🐍 Python - A memory leak journey while upgrading to 3.10

8. 🐘 PHP - Handling concurrent HTTP requests in PHP

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🏗️ ARCHITECTURE

• Performance engineering at Zepto. How we build low-latency systems: Part 2 | 10 min read

A behind-the-scenes look at how Zepto diagnosed real latency spikes and engineered dramatic p99 performance improvements in high-throughput services