Weekly thread
Week 2026-W41
In week 2026-W41 (2026-10-05 to 2026-10-11), 4 engineering stories were published across 3 Indian tech companies, including “GCP Storage Pools: Cheap Boot Disks, emptyDir Vol & FSTRIM/DISCARD” from Groww.
- GCP Storage Pools: Cheap Boot Disks, emptyDir Vol & FSTRIM/DISCARD
This article explains how a Storage Pool absorbed the boot disks and made them almost free. The same boot disks also became home to ephemeral data such as Trino cache, task spill, and Spark shuffle through emptyDir. But this introduced an unexpected problem: deleted transient…
- Cost-Optimized Kafka Architecture on GCP Storage Pools
This article explains how multiple Kafka clusters went on a storage diet when we moved from a traditional fixed-cost disk architecture to a Storage Pool model. We will follow Kafka from its recovery and performance requirements through Strimzi KafkaNodePools, zonal placement,…
- Solving Regional Consistency of Delivery ETA with a Deep Probabilistic Framework
1. Introduction In the on-demand food delivery ecosystem, an app’s Expected Time of Arrival (ETA) is the foundation of customer trust. Promise 25 minutes for a 40-minute delivery, and you leave a customer frustrated. Show 50 minutes for a 30-minute delivery, and that customer…
- Solving for better issue triage and prioritization with the unified Table View
Automated scans flood teams with thousands of duplicate accessibility violations. Our overhauled Table View eliminates triage fatigue with component-level aggregation, unified workflows, and inline confidence scores. Stop managing issue bloat and start fixing accessibility…