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Plugging Node.js Memory Leaks: Optimisation Insights
Flipkart

Brand Self Serve (BSS) is a core web application within Flipkart(https://advertising.flipkart.com/), designed for advertisers (Brands and Sellers) to create and manage advertisements in multiple formats. These ads are strategically placed on designated slots across flipkart.com…

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Re-architecting Flipkart’s Rate Card Engine: The Journey to Building a High-Scale, Generic Rate…
Flipkart

Re-architecting Flipkart’s Rate Card Engine: The Journey to Building a High-Scale, Generic Rate Card Platform Introduction In the hyper-competitive world of e-commerce every cent matters. How marketplace fees are calculated, charged and displayed to millions of sellers at…

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Modernizing Events Platform At ShareChat
ShareChat

At ShareChat’s Central Data Platform (CDP) team, we cater to more than 1000 different event types from 5 different apps, receiving and ingesting more than 80 billion events per day on a regular basis.

Gen AI Video — Building Scalable Validation Framework
JioHotstar

Gen AI Video — Building A Scalable Validation Framework We discuss building strong eval frameworks as part of our Generative AI studio to ensure that generated video maintains a high quality bar.Introduction As JioHotstar scales to serve one of the world’s largest streaming…

Optimizing Merchandising: Machine Learning for Real-Time App Experience and LTV Maximization
PhonePe

At PhonePe Limited (“PhonePe”), the top banner on our platform’s homepage (the “masthead”) isn’t just an ad slot—it’s the important real estate we have. However, delivering real-time, personalized recommendations at a scale of hundreds of millions of users presents a complex…

Modernizing Dependency Management: Beyond CocoaPods (Part 2 — The Execution)
JioHotstar

Modernizing Dependency Management: Beyond CocoaPods (Part 2 — The Execution) Recap In Part 1, we shared the strategy — why we had to move away from CocoaPods, how we evaluated our options, and the phased migration plan we designed to modernize 60 pods over 2 quarters without…

Breaking the Glass Ceiling: How Employee Voices on Glassdoor Made Meesho One of India’s Top Rated Employers
Meesho

Most career decisions are shaped by people and perspectives beyond ourselves. We speak to friends, seniors, and ex-colleagues. We Google. We read. And almost always, we look for one thing: other people's experiences. When someone considers joining a company, they aren't just…

Our Obsession with Merchant Experience: Breaking the Risk Review Black Box
Razorpay

Contributor : Yashshree Shinde When merchants couldn’t see why their funds were on hold, trust broke down. Here’s how we rebuilt the entire experience. You’ve shipped your products, paid your delivery partners, and you’re waiting for settlement. Then you receive a notification:…

Dependency Management: Our Journey Beyond CocoaPods (Part 1 — The Strategy)
JioHotstar

Modernizing Dependency Management: Beyond CocoaPods (Part 1 — The Strategy) CocoaPods formed the spine of our iOS build workflow. In this two part blog, we’re sharing our journey to transparently switch away from CocoaPods to SPM, minus the drama, but plus all the scars!Where We…

Scaling PMM: A Decoupled Architecture Story
CRED

As CRED grew, so did the invisible machinery behind it. Scaling from 100 to over 400 database instances pushed our monolithic Percona Monitoring Management (PMM) to its breaking point. This is the story of how we decoupled our observability stack, pivoting to VictoriaMetrics…

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High-Risk, High-Scale: Guaranteeing Ad Budget Precision at 1 Million Events/Second
Flipkart

Flipkart serves thousands of sponsored ads across various pages and with search queries. Advertisers are charged based on the impression views or clicks generated by their campaign content. In the high-velocity domain of AdTech, the latency between an ad impression/click and a…

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Inside Meesho’s Real-Time Analytics Platform: A Deep Dive into Driving Performance at Scale
Meesho

At Meesho, we are constantly striving to understand our users better and enhance their experience. Every day, users can generate billions of events on our platform from browsing products to completing purchases and we aim to translate these signals into insights instantly. From…

Bringing Interfaces to Life with Rive: Real-Time Animations at slice
Slice

At slice, we’ve always believed that a good UI shouldn’t just react, it should feel alive. When we started building new experiences like Voice Pay, we quickly ran into a problem that traditional animation tools just couldn’t deliver the kind of real-time interactivity we were…

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Keeping Java as the Core, Python to Lead Agentic Systems
Walmart Global Tech

We’ve been a Java shop for years, and now agentic AI demands us to rethink. How I got here? I’ve been in the Java world for more than 30 years. Java has been my default answer to “what should we build this in?” for most of my career. I’ve seen it grow from applets and early web…

Triksha - Securing AI with AI at Flipkart
Flipkart

Triksha — Securing AI with AI at Flipkart TL;DR GenAI apps introduce a new attack surface where prompts become the primary vector of exploitation, making generic application security ineffective for real-world, fine-tuned LLMs like e-commerce support bots. Triksha, Flipkart’s…

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Wiz Zero Critical Club!
Postman

Postman has joined Wiz’s Zero Critical Club, “a prestigious group of Wiz customers who have achieved the extraordinary feat of having zero...

APACHE SPARK OPTIMISATIONS
Flipkart

Context Ambitious goal and the scope of the problem We were chasing a critical, futuristic business requirement for our big data pipelines achieving “1-day planning,” defined as a total execution window of 24 hours or less. The entire process is extensive, processing a 7TB data…

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Beyond the Context Window: A New Approach to Summarizing Big Data
Flipkart

Image Source: Google Nano BananaTL;DR LLMs struggle to summarize the thousands of reviews for a single product because of context window limits and conflicting opinions. The proposed solution, XL-OPSUMM, is a scalable framework that summarizes reviews incrementally (in chunks)…

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