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Clockwork: The Backbone of PhonePe’s 2 Billion Daily Jobs
PhonePe

Have you ever had an alarm fail to wake you up, causing a ripple effect of chaos in your morning? At PhonePe, we understand the criticality of such ‘alarms’ in our digital ecosystem. Take, for instance, our daily Merchant Settlements process. A merchant receives multiple…

1.5+ million PDFs in 25 minutes
Zerodha

At Zerodha, many million users login and use our financial platforms every day. Over the recent months, on an average day, 1.5+ million users have been executing stock and derivative transactions. On a volatile day, this number could easily double. After a trading session…

Caching — the superhero of speedy apps.
CRED

Pareto Principle in Action: Boosting Performance with Smart Caching Caching — the superhero of speedy apps. It’s the secret sauce that saves us from constant database calls, making our applications faster and cutting down on infrastructure costs. But, let’s face it, caching…

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From Silos to Standardization: Leveraging DBT for a Democratized Data Framework
Urban Company

By — Abhishek Pathania (Engineer, Platform) Urban Company’s growth over the last few years has resulted in an increased volume and reliance on data to fulfill product & business use-cases. Data-driven decisions across teams have played a pivotal role in this journey; but it came…

Securing the Cloud: Migrating to IMDSv2 for AWS Compute Workloads
CRED

CRED has evolved to be a multi-product platform, and that necessitates the use of multiple microservices. The microservices we have run primarily on AWS ECS (Elastic Container Service). Within our ecosystem, these microservices predominantly operate on AWS ECS (Elastic Container…

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GraphQL for data products
Hasura

To connect backend data products with the chatbot frontend, a reliable, scalable, and secure communication mechanism is needed. This blog post posits that the link should be GraphQL.

Enabling IOT for UC’s Native RO
Urban Company

By — Avantika Dwivedi (Product Ordering Ecosystem, Engineering) After servicing over 10 Lakh ROs of every possible brand, we realised that the high cost of maintaining a water purifier was due to the frequent wear and tear of filters, leading to expensive yearly RO water…