Sutradhar aggregates the engineering blogs of Indian companies and startups — PhonePe, Razorpay, Flipkart, Swiggy, Meesho, Groww, CRED, JioHotstar and more — into one live feed, topic hubs and a weekly digest.https://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.deven-inSun, 01 Nov 2026 15:18:05 GMThttps://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/how-apache-yunikorn-taught-our-kubernetes-cluster-to-play-tetris-206bdf774bc29caahttps://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/how-apache-yunikorn-taught-our-kubernetes-cluster-to-play-tetris-206bdf774bc29caaA story about Spark, scheduling, and a cloud bill that refused to make sense. Chapter 1: A Fresh Start on Kubernetes Every migration story starts with optimism, and ours was no different. We had just moved our Spark workloads from EMR to Kubernetes (EKS). On paper, it was… — continue reading the original from Slice: https://slice-engineering.medium.com/how-apache-yunikorn-taught-our-kubernetes-cluster-to-play-tetris-70532db04c5eSun, 01 Nov 2026 14:14:55 GMTfintech-paymentsbackendscaleinfrastructurehttps://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/compass-an-ai-navigation-agent-for-everyone-4b7ca44607c05c3bhttps://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/compass-an-ai-navigation-agent-for-everyone-4b7ca44607c05c3bYou already have the data. Compass is how everyone asks it. You already know the question. What was DAU today? What’s the order’s success rate over the last few months? How many new users did X and Y, and are they sitting at the stage of doing Z? This escalation just landed.… — continue reading the original from Groww: https://tech.groww.in/compass-an-ai-navigation-agent-for-everyone-8f700e30e86fFri, 30 Oct 2026 07:28:29 GMTfintech-paymentsbackenddata-sciencehttps://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/search-that-gets-you-inside-instamart-s-llm-powered-search-57adafa5c3502ebbhttps://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/search-that-gets-you-inside-instamart-s-llm-powered-search-57adafa5c3502ebbHow large language models help shoppers find what they mean, not just what they type. Author: Aarav Nigam Introduction Every search box eventually hits a wall where traditional search stops being useful. Searching tide powder 100g on Instamart works seamlessly. Exact keywords… — continue reading the original from Swiggy: https://medium.com/swiggy-bytes/search-that-gets-you-inside-instamarts-llm-powered-search-b95b6a93ed60Wed, 28 Oct 2026 04:28:58 GMTbackendscaledata-scienceai-mlhttps://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/how-razorpay-moved-2-500-dags-to-airflow-3-one-dag-at-a-time-e4f702be64d569b7https://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/how-razorpay-moved-2-500-dags-to-airflow-3-one-dag-at-a-time-e4f702be64d569b7Airflow, the scheduler behind Razorpay’s batch data pipelines, now runs on version 3.3, and we led the move from 2.10. It runs more than 2,700 DAGs and about 11,000 task runs a day, and we got there without a big-bang cutover. The official upgrade guide is the place to start for… — continue reading the original from Razorpay: https://engineering.razorpay.com/how-razorpay-moved-2-500-dags-to-airflow-3-one-dag-at-a-time-71419355a07bMon, 26 Oct 2026 10:23:23 GMTfintech-paymentsbackenddata-sciencehttps://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/nobody-knows-what-s-in-the-wire-how-groww-moves-money-between-india-and-wall-str-9691d95c5dc8daf8https://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/nobody-knows-what-s-in-the-wire-how-groww-moves-money-between-india-and-wall-str-9691d95c5dc8daf8How Groww tracks cross-border payments between India and the US, ensuring every dollar is accounted for. Author: Aditi Gour Introduction Every business day, SWIFT wires cross between India and the US, and each one carries many people's money in a single lump. Deposits travel out… — continue reading the original from Groww: https://tech.groww.in/nobody-knows-whats-in-the-wire-how-groww-moves-money-between-india-and-wall-street-dbe31b46bf88Thu, 22 Oct 2026 05:15:47 GMTfintech-paymentsbackenddata-sciencehttps://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/how-we-deploy-reliably-at-razorpay-7f1662097c0989a3https://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/how-we-deploy-reliably-at-razorpay-7f1662097c0989a3Most production incidents do not begin with a server dying. They begin with a deployment: dozens a day, across hundreds of services, each the moment risk enters the system. We run payments infrastructure at Razorpay. When a payments system degrades, transactions fail: merchants… — continue reading the original from Razorpay: https://engineering.razorpay.com/how-we-deploy-reliably-at-razorpay-52ddf676caf8Tue, 20 Oct 2026 08:20:57 GMTfintech-paymentsbackenddata-sciencehttps://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/browserstack-recognized-as-a-challenger-in-the-2026-gartner-magic-quadranttm-for-5a698572c2ab6977https://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/browserstack-recognized-as-a-challenger-in-the-2026-gartner-magic-quadranttm-for-5a698572c2ab6977BrowserStack has been recognized as a Challenger in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Digital Accessibility. Discover how we're transforming accessibility into a continuous, automated workflow with real-device testing and shift-left developer tools. — continue reading the original from BrowserStack: https://www.browserstack.com/blog/browserstack-recognized-as-a-challenger-in-the-2026-gartner-magic-quadrant-for-digital-accessibilityMon, 19 Oct 2026 10:54:23 GMTplatformdevops-sremobilehttps://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/the-kafka-optimization-that-saved-us-350k-a-year-92ac94f392b4ce16https://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/the-kafka-optimization-that-saved-us-350k-a-year-92ac94f392b4ce16The JioHotstar platform receives in excess of 40TB data every day. At 2.1 million messages per second. At this scale, every superflous byte is costly, like real money costly. In this blog, we cover strategies that helped us optimise our ingest workflow which ultimately saved… — continue reading the original from JioHotstar: https://blog.hotstar.com/the-kafka-optimization-that-saved-us-350k-a-year-48a0e05c3c08Mon, 19 Oct 2026 07:37:31 GMTscaleinfrastructuremobilebackendhttps://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/introducing-browserstack-load-testing-02ba16856cb8873dhttps://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/introducing-browserstack-load-testing-02ba16856cb8873dBrowserStack Load Testing runs real browsers and API traffic in one test, so you can see how your web app holds up for real users before your busiest day. — continue reading the original from BrowserStack: https://www.browserstack.com/blog/introducing-browserstack-load-testingWed, 14 Oct 2026 13:00:00 GMTplatformdevops-sremobilebackendhttps://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/inside-razorpay-s-rto-model-the-engineering-behind-its-ml-lifecycle-2e65a95bbe5c8117https://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/inside-razorpay-s-rto-model-the-engineering-behind-its-ml-lifecycle-2e65a95bbe5c8117Contributor: Abhik Debnath In this article, we use Razorpay’s Return to Origin (RTO) risk model to explain the ML lifecycle: how we build a reproducible release, deploy it into checkout, monitor its behaviour, and use later outcomes to evaluate whether it needs retraining. We… — continue reading the original from Razorpay: https://engineering.razorpay.com/inside-razorpays-rto-model-the-engineering-behind-its-ml-lifecycle-999fe75e66ecTue, 13 Oct 2026 10:00:32 GMTfintech-paymentsbackenddata-scienceai-mlhttps://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/gcp-storage-pools-cheap-boot-disks-emptydir-vol-fstrim-discard-48b27a3ab9c71b7fhttps://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/gcp-storage-pools-cheap-boot-disks-emptydir-vol-fstrim-discard-48b27a3ab9c71b7fThis 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… — continue reading the original from Groww: https://tech.groww.in/gcp-storage-pools-cheap-boot-disks-emptydir-vol-fstrim-discard-765ba89123f7Thu, 08 Oct 2026 10:41:02 GMTfintech-paymentsbackenddata-sciencehttps://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/cost-optimized-kafka-architecture-on-gcp-storage-pools-657cf10881e2ad26https://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/cost-optimized-kafka-architecture-on-gcp-storage-pools-657cf10881e2ad26This 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,… — continue reading the original from Groww: https://tech.groww.in/cost-optimized-kafka-architecture-on-gcp-storage-pools-51eeb5f048bdThu, 08 Oct 2026 10:16:26 GMTfintech-paymentsbackenddata-sciencehttps://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/solving-regional-consistency-of-delivery-eta-with-a-deep-probabilistic-framework-c4ab44708b480757https://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/solving-regional-consistency-of-delivery-eta-with-a-deep-probabilistic-framework-c4ab44708b4807571. 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… — continue reading the original from Swiggy: https://medium.com/swiggy-bytes/solving-regional-consistency-of-delivery-eta-with-a-deep-probabilistic-framework-8d82d6abdf41Thu, 08 Oct 2026 08:15:48 GMTbackendscaledata-scienceplatformhttps://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/solving-for-better-issue-triage-and-prioritization-with-the-unified-table-view-4f2d823a6ec9759bhttps://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/solving-for-better-issue-triage-and-prioritization-with-the-unified-table-view-4f2d823a6ec9759bAutomated 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… — continue reading the original from BrowserStack: https://www.browserstack.com/blog/solving-for-better-issue-triage-and-prioritization-with-the-unified-table-viewWed, 07 Oct 2026 09:50:29 GMTplatformdevops-sremobilehttps://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/beyond-compliance-to-readiness-what-en-301-549-v4-1-1-means-for-your-accessibili-22ff38ef47ecdb93https://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/beyond-compliance-to-readiness-what-en-301-549-v4-1-1-means-for-your-accessibili-22ff38ef47ecdb93Europe’s EN 301 549 v4.1.1 update adopts WCAG 2.2 across web and mobile ICT. Learn what changed, why leading teams are building readiness before formal mandates, and how BrowserStack helps validate accessibility across real devices and testing workflows. — continue reading the original from BrowserStack: https://www.browserstack.com/blog/what-en-301-549-v4-1-1-means-for-your-accessibility-strategyThu, 01 Oct 2026 05:58:58 GMTplatformdevops-sremobilehttps://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/building-scalable-real-time-live-streaming-systems-84e039c476b67a64https://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/building-scalable-real-time-live-streaming-systems-84e039c476b67a64Synchronizing Video, Audio, Whiteboard Events, and Distributed Backends at Scale What happens when thousands of students join a live classroom, rewind a lecture by 30 seconds, and still expect the teacher’s whiteboard drawings, voice, and video to remain perfectly… — continue reading the original from Walmart Global Tech: https://medium.com/walmartglobaltech/building-scalable-real-time-live-streaming-systems-9be510b75566Wed, 30 Sep 2026 18:09:28 GMTdata-scienceplatformscalehttps://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/kafka-inconsistencies-and-the-silent-failures-behind-real-time-decision-platform-4316b37a3318e135https://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/kafka-inconsistencies-and-the-silent-failures-behind-real-time-decision-platform-4316b37a3318e135A field guide to the duplicate events, stale state, rebalances, and deployment traps that quietly distort real-time decisions — told through one decision that should have fired and didn’t. Note: This piece assumes working familiarity with Kafka and event-streaming fundamentals —… — continue reading the original from Walmart Global Tech: https://medium.com/walmartglobaltech/kafka-inconsistencies-and-the-silent-failures-behind-real-time-decision-platforms-f6db55156286Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:21:42 GMTdata-scienceplatformscalebackendhttps://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/what-we-learned-from-benchmarking-knowledge-bases-for-coding-agents-424d282902f9c11chttps://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/what-we-learned-from-benchmarking-knowledge-bases-for-coding-agents-424d282902f9c11cIntroduction/TL;DR At JioHotstar, we have been thinking a lot about how to give developers a better AI-assisted engineering experience. Once coding agents started becoming useful for day-to-day work, the next natural question was: how do we help those agents understand our… — continue reading the original from JioHotstar: https://blog.hotstar.com/what-we-learned-from-benchmarking-knowledge-bases-for-coding-agents-6bbdd9e53727Mon, 28 Sep 2026 12:03:06 GMTscaleinfrastructuremobilehttps://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/migrating-swiggy-partner-app-s-deep-link-engine-at-scale-f8c0f9d49be29426https://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/migrating-swiggy-partner-app-s-deep-link-engine-at-scale-f8c0f9d49be29426The OS decides whether your app may open a URL — before any of your code runs. We swapped the SDK underneath that, without republishing the links we already owned.A partner taps a link in an SMS, a push, a share sheet — and lands on the exact screen they needed. We changed the… — continue reading the original from Swiggy: https://medium.com/swiggy-bytes/migrating-swiggy-partner-apps-deep-link-engine-at-scale-3d6c28e889d5Mon, 28 Sep 2026 06:11:13 GMTbackendscaledata-sciencehttps://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/from-tool-hopping-to-talking-reimagining-datacenter-observability-with-netra-4f8d452382531ceehttps://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/from-tool-hopping-to-talking-reimagining-datacenter-observability-with-netra-4f8d452382531ceeIt’s 3:00 AM. The glare of a monitor cuts through a pitch-black room as a critical alert pierces your sleep. Seconds later, you’re locked in a familiar, exhausting ritual: eight browser tabs open, bouncing frantically from Grafana metrics to Loki log streams, then over to Jira… — continue reading the original from PhonePe: https://tech.phonepe.com/from-tool-hopping-to-talking-reimagining-datacenter-observability-with-netraMon, 28 Sep 2026 04:28:16 GMTfintech-paymentsbackendscalefrontenddevops-srehttps://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/the-9-second-delay-how-a-default-kubernetes-setting-choked-our-coredns-ffefe8becec400e3https://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/the-9-second-delay-how-a-default-kubernetes-setting-choked-our-coredns-ffefe8becec400e3by Divakar Raju The panicked messages started rolling in from all our dev and application teams, outbound calls in our staging environment were randomly timing out, and some external requests were inexplicably taking over 9 seconds to complete. In a modern microservices… — continue reading the original from Freshworks: https://medium.com/freshworks-engineering-blog/the-9-second-delay-how-a-default-kubernetes-setting-choked-our-coredns-932b3f09f2ccWed, 23 Sep 2026 09:43:43 GMTplatformfrontendcultureinfrastructurehttps://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/compass-an-ai-navigation-agent-for-everyone-81ff805949dca8e0https://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/compass-an-ai-navigation-agent-for-everyone-81ff805949dca8e0You already have the data. Compass is how everyone asks it. You already know the question. What was DAU today? What’s the order's success rate over the last few months. How many new users did X and Y, and are they sitting at the stage of doing Z? This escalation just landed.… — continue reading the original from Groww: https://tech.groww.in/compass-an-ai-navigation-agent-for-everyone-369fd0de52f1Tue, 22 Sep 2026 06:34:36 GMTfintech-paymentsbackenddata-sciencehttps://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/honoring-iconsofquality-christine-pinto-8b6a5a9bce22059chttps://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/honoring-iconsofquality-christine-pinto-8b6a5a9bce22059cTo celebrate the relentless passion and invaluable contributions of leaders in software quality, BrowserStack is proud to honour Icons of Quality. — continue reading the original from BrowserStack: https://www.browserstack.com/blog/honoring-icons-of-quality-christine-pintoFri, 18 Sep 2026 13:50:16 GMTplatformdevops-sremobilehttps://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/honoring-iconsofquality-joao-proenca-b14080e8216a3befhttps://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/honoring-iconsofquality-joao-proenca-b14080e8216a3befTo celebrate the relentless passion and invaluable contributions of leaders in software quality, BrowserStack is proud to honour Icons of Quality. — continue reading the original from BrowserStack: https://www.browserstack.com/blog/honoring-icons-of-quality-joao-proencaFri, 18 Sep 2026 13:49:07 GMTplatformdevops-sremobilehttps://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/one-autovacuum-away-partitioning-slice-s-billion-row-transaction-tables-without-abd25c3be38985echttps://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/one-autovacuum-away-partitioning-slice-s-billion-row-transaction-tables-without-abd25c3be38985ecPreface One evening Postgres ran a routine ANALYZE on one of our tables. Within minutes, one of our payment products was degraded. Nothing had been deployed. No migration, no config change, and traffic was normal. Yet the database writer was saturated, latency on the transaction… — continue reading the original from Slice: https://slice-engineering.medium.com/one-autovacuum-away-partitioning-slices-billion-row-transaction-tables-with-no-planned-downtime-e7bf69fc1d99Wed, 16 Sep 2026 09:29:05 GMTfintech-paymentsbackendscalehttps://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/honoring-iconsofquality-priyanka-halder-ad6a3b5438473c07https://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/honoring-iconsofquality-priyanka-halder-ad6a3b5438473c07To celebrate the relentless passion and invaluable contributions of leaders in software quality, BrowserStack is proud to Icons of Quality. — continue reading the original from BrowserStack: https://www.browserstack.com/blog/honoring-icons-of-quality-priyanka-halderWed, 16 Sep 2026 08:22:04 GMTplatformdevops-sremobilehttps://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/honoring-iconsofquality-huib-schoots-92cab48c6cf52841https://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/honoring-iconsofquality-huib-schoots-92cab48c6cf52841To celebrate the relentless passion and invaluable contributions of leaders in software quality, BrowserStack is proud to honour Icons of Quality. — continue reading the original from BrowserStack: https://www.browserstack.com/blog/honoring-icons-of-quality-huib-schootsWed, 16 Sep 2026 08:21:48 GMTplatformdevops-sremobilehttps://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/honoring-iconsofquality-ash-winter-0b441988a741ea52https://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/honoring-iconsofquality-ash-winter-0b441988a741ea52To celebrate the relentless passion and invaluable contributions of leaders in software quality, BrowserStack is proud to honour Icons of Quality. — continue reading the original from BrowserStack: https://www.browserstack.com/blog/honoring-icons-of-quality-ash-winterWed, 16 Sep 2026 08:21:31 GMTplatformdevops-sremobilehttps://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/honoring-iconsofquality-pricilla-bilavendran-07ab053e9ee986e1https://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/honoring-iconsofquality-pricilla-bilavendran-07ab053e9ee986e1To celebrate the relentless passion and invaluable contributions of leaders in software quality, BrowserStack is proud to honour Icons of Quality. — continue reading the original from BrowserStack: https://www.browserstack.com/blog/honoring-icons-of-quality-pricilla-bilavendranWed, 16 Sep 2026 08:21:09 GMTplatformdevops-sremobilehttps://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/honoring-iconsofquality-mark-hrynczak-4035a00135eca663https://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/honoring-iconsofquality-mark-hrynczak-4035a00135eca663To celebrate the relentless passion and invaluable contributions of leaders in software quality, BrowserStack is proud to honour Icons of Quality. — continue reading the original from BrowserStack: https://www.browserstack.com/blog/honoring-icons-of-quality-mark-hrynczakWed, 16 Sep 2026 08:20:52 GMTplatformdevops-sremobilehttps://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/moving-from-panic-to-process-testing-your-way-to-a-successful-k8s-migration-094cd19902fe2fbchttps://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/moving-from-panic-to-process-testing-your-way-to-a-successful-k8s-migration-094cd19902fe2fbcby Keerthivaasan K In the season finale of Silicon Valley, there’s a classic scene: Pied Piper is live-streaming a rescue, traffic is melting the servers, and the team is pulling a “heroic save” at the 11th hour. It makes for great TV. It makes for a terrible career as an SRE.… — continue reading the original from Freshworks: https://medium.com/freshworks-engineering-blog/moving-from-panic-to-process-testing-your-way-to-a-successful-k8s-migration-9893a8ca7900Wed, 16 Sep 2026 05:57:15 GMTplatformfrontendcultureinfrastructurehttps://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/making-karpenter-more-reliable-at-scale-removing-its-dependency-on-coredns-f9e69dfd98c86e24https://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/making-karpenter-more-reliable-at-scale-removing-its-dependency-on-coredns-f9e69dfd98c86e24How Freshworks evolved its Karpenter bootstrap architecture across 400+ EKS clusters — and what it’s paying off now. by Ebin Gladson At Freshworks, our applications run on AWS EKS. A while back, we moved from Cluster Autoscaler to Karpenter, and the switch paid off in several… — continue reading the original from Freshworks: https://medium.com/freshworks-engineering-blog/making-karpenter-more-reliable-at-scale-removing-its-dependency-on-coredns-063451f8436aWed, 16 Sep 2026 05:20:48 GMTplatformfrontendculturescalehttps://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/honoring-iconsofquality-gaurav-singh-d6d9587f8f11182ahttps://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/honoring-iconsofquality-gaurav-singh-d6d9587f8f11182aTo celebrate the relentless passion and invaluable contributions of leaders in software quality, BrowserStack is proud to honour Icons of Quality. — continue reading the original from BrowserStack: https://www.browserstack.com/blog/honoring-icons-of-quality-gaurav-singhTue, 15 Sep 2026 11:29:38 GMTplatformdevops-sremobilehttps://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/scaling-ml-model-inference-through-architectural-separation-74ccbc9abbb2b0e9https://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/scaling-ml-model-inference-through-architectural-separation-74ccbc9abbb2b0e9The model is only one part of the inference pipeline. At scale, the work happening around it, from routing requests to coordinating downstream dependencies, can have a much bigger impact on latency and efficiency. We addressed this by separating model execution from request… — continue reading the original from CRED: https://engineering.cred.club/scaling-ml-model-inference-through-architectural-separation-32b2629f554aTue, 15 Sep 2026 08:16:56 GMTbackendmobilefintech-paymentsai-mlscalehttps://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/honoring-iconsofquality-jesper-ottosen-fed78025bbc832c3https://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/honoring-iconsofquality-jesper-ottosen-fed78025bbc832c3To celebrate the relentless passion and invaluable contributions of leaders in software quality, BrowserStack is proud to honour Icons of Quality. — continue reading the original from BrowserStack: https://www.browserstack.com/blog/honoring-icons-of-quality-jesper-ottosenMon, 14 Sep 2026 12:02:58 GMTplatformdevops-sremobilehttps://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/honoring-iconsofquality-debbie-o-brien-cd2dfc26e234c326https://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/honoring-iconsofquality-debbie-o-brien-cd2dfc26e234c326To celebrate the relentless passion and invaluable contributions of leaders in software quality, BrowserStack is proud to honour Icons of Quality. — continue reading the original from BrowserStack: https://www.browserstack.com/blog/honoring-icons-of-quality-debbie-obrienFri, 11 Sep 2026 09:21:23 GMTplatformdevops-sremobilehttps://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/ai-x-qa-leadership-summit-2026-building-the-ai-native-qa-engine-305bb8216dda345ahttps://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/ai-x-qa-leadership-summit-2026-building-the-ai-native-qa-engine-305bb8216dda345aBrowserStack's 11th QA Leadership Summit runs 23 September 2026, free and virtual. Two tracks: AI strategy and governance for QA leaders, applied AI testing for practitioners. Speakers from AWS, Amazon, Atlassian, KPMG and S&P Global. — continue reading the original from BrowserStack: https://www.browserstack.com/blog/ai-x-qa-leadership-summit-2026Fri, 11 Sep 2026 06:34:59 GMTplatformdevops-sremobilehttps://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/honoring-iconsofquality-keith-klain-2239947d53896445https://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/honoring-iconsofquality-keith-klain-2239947d53896445To celebrate the relentless passion and invaluable contributions of leaders in software quality, BrowserStack is proud to honour Icons of Quality. — continue reading the original from BrowserStack: https://www.browserstack.com/blog/honoring-icons-of-quality-keith-klainThu, 10 Sep 2026 11:56:43 GMTplatformdevops-sremobilehttps://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/from-experimentation-to-scale-phonepe-s-ai-journey-in-hr-b00be992f8421dbehttps://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/from-experimentation-to-scale-phonepe-s-ai-journey-in-hr-b00be992f8421dbeAt PhonePe, our strategy for AI in HR was never about deploying a single, generic solution. Instead, we set out to build a fit for purpose ecosystem prioritizing speed, flexibility, and accuracy embedded directly into daily workflows. AI Readiness began before AI. We have been… — continue reading the original from PhonePe: https://tech.phonepe.com/from-experimentation-to-scale-phonepes-ai-journey-in-hrThu, 10 Sep 2026 01:08:21 GMTfintech-paymentsbackendscaleproduct-engineeringhttps://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/honoring-iconsofquality-richard-bradshaw-1e8fea5ddf501e0chttps://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/honoring-iconsofquality-richard-bradshaw-1e8fea5ddf501e0cTo celebrate the relentless passion and invaluable contributions of leaders in software quality, BrowserStack is proud to honour Icons of Quality. — continue reading the original from BrowserStack: https://www.browserstack.com/blog/honoring-icons-of-quality-richard-bradshawWed, 09 Sep 2026 11:44:44 GMTplatformdevops-sremobilehttps://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/see-the-blast-radius-ship-without-the-fear-c88f3bc1a993c463https://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/see-the-blast-radius-ship-without-the-fear-c88f3bc1a993c463by Govind Aadithya Sripada Every two weeks, Freshdesk shipped changes to production — and every two weeks, we did it scared. Hundreds of commits across Ruby, Java, Ember, React, and infrastructure, all merging at once, and we tested everything to cover ourselves — all 41,000… — continue reading the original from Freshworks: https://medium.com/freshworks-engineering-blog/see-the-blast-radius-ship-without-the-fear-afc46aa7945fWed, 09 Sep 2026 05:00:11 GMTplatformfrontendculturehttps://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/chunked-twice-rejected-once-an-istio-502-mystery-f14d786663a92a24https://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/chunked-twice-rejected-once-an-istio-502-mystery-f14d786663a92a24by Palak Bansal, Madhavi Madangopal Modern service architectures are full of well meaning intermediaries: proxies, gateways, sidecars, each one convinced it is helping, and touching your requests on the way through. What happens when those layers interact just slightly wrong? In… — continue reading the original from Freshworks: https://medium.com/freshworks-engineering-blog/chunked-twice-rejected-once-an-istio-502-mystery-5c1bf7213e4aWed, 09 Sep 2026 04:56:18 GMTplatformfrontendculturehttps://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/groww-lite-building-a-disaster-resilient-trading-system-0cb2b80434e78861https://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/groww-lite-building-a-disaster-resilient-trading-system-0cb2b80434e78861How we built a minimal, independent path to the exchange that stays up even when the rest of Groww doesn’t. Author: Gaurav Agrawal Why Groww Lite Exists Every large trading platform eventually runs into the same uncomfortable truth: A rich product experience might involve using… — continue reading the original from Groww: https://tech.groww.in/groww-lite-building-a-disaster-resilient-trading-system-77146b174b9fTue, 08 Sep 2026 14:37:20 GMTfintech-paymentsbackenddata-sciencehttps://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/zoomable-recyclerview-enabling-pinch-to-zoom-and-panning-in-android-recyclerview-77b8ea96d003a8fchttps://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/zoomable-recyclerview-enabling-pinch-to-zoom-and-panning-in-android-recyclerview-77b8ea96d003a8fcIntroduction Android’s native RecyclerView is exceptionally efficient at handling large datasets through item recycling, but it lacks native support for spatial interactions like pinch-to-zoom and canvas-level panning. For complex layouts—such as interactive retail grids or… — continue reading the original from PhonePe: https://tech.phonepe.com/zoomable-recyclerview-enabling-pinch-to-zoom-and-panning-in-android-recyclerviewsTue, 08 Sep 2026 03:46:08 GMTfintech-paymentsbackendscaleengineeringmobilehttps://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/five-years-of-kafka-at-razorpay-s-upi-switch-01d5562804a8f40fhttps://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/five-years-of-kafka-at-razorpay-s-upi-switch-01d5562804a8f40fPreface The UPI Switch at Razorpay has evolved significantly in the five years since we started building it. The Switch is the platform that enables real-time payment processing with NPCI. When the team began, it was little more than an idea. Today it powers more than 70% of… — continue reading the original from Razorpay: https://engineering.razorpay.com/tryst-with-kafka-2f5cef766c45Mon, 07 Sep 2026 09:09:58 GMTfintech-paymentsbackenddata-sciencehttps://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/the-meesho-mantras-explained-the-operating-principles-behind-how-we-work-921cf539c2bc4d36https://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/the-meesho-mantras-explained-the-operating-principles-behind-how-we-work-921cf539c2bc4d36What are the Meesho Mantras, why do they exist, and how do they actually shape decisions? The complete explanation - one mantra at a time. Ask anyone who has worked at a fast-growing company the same question, and you'll get some version of the same answer: the hardest part was… — continue reading the original from Meesho: https://www.meesho.io/blog/the-meesho-mantras-explained-the-operating-principles-behind-how-we-workWed, 02 Sep 2026 07:00:00 GMTbackendmobilescaleculturehttps://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/stop-reacting-to-data-problems-here-s-the-architecture-that-prevents-them-4d3d535bab6593ddhttps://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/stop-reacting-to-data-problems-here-s-the-architecture-that-prevents-them-4d3d535bab6593ddCoauthored by Satyajeet Coordinating Data Evolution at Enterprise Scale When you operate data platforms on a global enterprise scale, hundreds of engineering teams ship improvements every week, each moving independently to deliver value at the pace of the business demands. This… — continue reading the original from Walmart Global Tech: https://medium.com/walmartglobaltech/stop-reacting-to-data-problems-heres-the-architecture-that-prevents-them-a274d54f624bTue, 25 Aug 2026 20:22:17 GMTdata-scienceplatformscalehttps://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/the-right-pixels-optimising-images-at-meesho-s-scale-ce12abef7d04f05bhttps://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/the-right-pixels-optimising-images-at-meesho-s-scale-ce12abef7d04f05bClient-side engineering lessons from optimizing billions of image loads every day in Meesho’s Android app. Within the Meesho app, images serve as the product surface itself rather than mere ornamentation. Users judge fabric, finish, colour, fit and detail through pixels, while… — continue reading the original from Meesho: https://www.meesho.io/blog/the-right-pixels-optimising-images-at-meeshos-scaleTue, 25 Aug 2026 06:04:07 GMTbackendmobilescaleengineeringproduct-engineeringhttps://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/how-razorpay-cut-its-metrics-bill-by-62-without-losing-a-dashboard-a3e61564425e4946https://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/how-razorpay-cut-its-metrics-bill-by-62-without-losing-a-dashboard-a3e61564425e4946Contributor: Saijal Shrivastava We cut our metrics ingestion by 62% without deleting a single useful dashboard or breaking an alert. Daily ingestion dropped from about 450 billion samples to about 170 billion. The surprising part was not one large optimization. It was three… — continue reading the original from Razorpay: https://engineering.razorpay.com/how-razorpay-cut-its-metrics-bill-by-62-without-losing-a-dashboard-2a7d5467df37Mon, 24 Aug 2026 10:25:21 GMTfintech-paymentsbackenddata-sciencehttps://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/the-350-kb-hidden-in-our-xml-layouts-754db45bf82cc0bdhttps://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/the-350-kb-hidden-in-our-xml-layouts-754db45bf82cc0bdSolving an AAPT2 Auto-Versioning Mystery The discovery APK size is a core performance metric for us. We track it continuously, investigate regressions, and regularly inspect what is actually shipped, not only what exists in source control. That habit led us to an unusual… — continue reading the original from Meesho: https://www.meesho.io/blog/the-350-kb-hidden-in-our-xml-layoutsMon, 17 Aug 2026 06:34:08 GMTbackendmobilescaleengineeringhttps://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/lens-give-your-entire-team-x-ray-vision-into-your-android-app-16235310e61a7f48https://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/lens-give-your-entire-team-x-ray-vision-into-your-android-app-16235310e61a7f48Lens lets your team see what is happening inside a running mobile app—from a normal web browser. You Know This Bug, Right? It is Friday afternoon. QA tells you that the profile screen is blank after login. You open the same app, follow the same steps, and everything works. The… — continue reading the original from PhonePe: https://tech.phonepe.com/lens-give-your-entire-team-x-ray-vision-into-your-android-appMon, 10 Aug 2026 03:49:28 GMTfintech-paymentsbackendscalefrontendmobilehttps://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/holding-revamp-went-live-then-reality-check-hit-hard-9620707c6542a315https://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/holding-revamp-went-live-then-reality-check-hit-hard-9620707c6542a315Introduction In the previous article, we shared how we redesigned Holdings retrieval to eliminate unnecessary work. The architecture looked solid, and the rollout was ready. Then we deployed it. With millions of users accessing Holdings every day, the rollout looked healthy… — continue reading the original from Groww: https://tech.groww.in/holding-revamp-went-live-then-reality-check-hit-hard-5574010bade0Sun, 09 Aug 2026 04:31:03 GMTfintech-paymentsbackenddata-sciencehttps://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/ci-doesn-t-need-on-demand-moving-our-build-pipelines-to-spot-instances-e521038bf11d3176https://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/ci-doesn-t-need-on-demand-moving-our-build-pipelines-to-spot-instances-e521038bf11d3176Contributors: Guptaanuj CI/CD pipelines have always had a money-vs-stability problem. Run on-demand AWS instances and your build infrastructure is rock solid, expensive, and predictable. Run on spot instances and your costs drop 70–90%, but AWS can pull the rug with 2 minutes of… — continue reading the original from Razorpay: https://engineering.razorpay.com/ci-doesnt-need-on-demand-moving-our-build-pipelines-to-spot-instances-6fff1cd92ba8Wed, 05 Aug 2026 15:07:35 GMTfintech-paymentsbackenddata-sciencehttps://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/how-sharechat-rebuilt-subscription-billing-on-temporal-and-reached-99-9-reliabil-2de65a18f724409ehttps://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/how-sharechat-rebuilt-subscription-billing-on-temporal-and-reached-99-9-reliabil-2de65a18f724409eRecurring subscription billing in India is deceptively complex. A single billing cycle has to send a mandated pre-debit notification, wait a regulator-defined window, then attempt collection by coordinating — continue reading the original from ShareChat: https://sharechat.com/blogs/engineering/how-sharechat-rebuilt-subscription-billing-on-temporal-and-reached-99-9-reliabilityTue, 04 Aug 2026 04:28:40 GMTbackenddata-sciencemobileai-mldevops-srehttps://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/llms-for-relevance-automating-high-quality-product-relevance-labeling-in-flipkar-75ec82fb09029744https://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/llms-for-relevance-automating-high-quality-product-relevance-labeling-in-flipkar-75ec82fb09029744Amey Patil , Shreya Malani· November 2025 Every product you see on a Flipkart search results page is there because a system decided it was relevant to what you typed. But how do we know those decisions are good? Someone — or something — has to look at a query and a product and… — continue reading the original from Flipkart: https://blog.flipkart.tech/llms-for-relevance-automating-high-quality-product-relevance-labeling-in-flipkart-search-ddd5ca50b584Mon, 03 Aug 2026 12:26:43 GMTbackendscaleplatformdata-scienceproduct-engineeringhttps://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/quality-in-the-loop-measuring-and-enforcing-build-quality-in-agentic-development-60ae7d834862221ehttps://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/quality-in-the-loop-measuring-and-enforcing-build-quality-in-agentic-development-60ae7d834862221eMore than 70% of the code my team ships is now AI-generated. Velocity stopped being our constraint a while ago. What replaced it is a question the team asks several times a week, and until this year we had no defensible way to answer it. The question every developer on my team… — continue reading the original from Meesho: https://www.meesho.io/blog/quality-in-the-loop-measuring-and-enforcing-build-quality-in-agentic-developmentMon, 03 Aug 2026 07:17:59 GMTbackendmobilescaleengineeringculturehttps://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/refusing-the-haystack-how-groww-s-cyber-defence-team-scales-detection-and-respon-9c9fc59c3bcafeeahttps://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/refusing-the-haystack-how-groww-s-cyber-defence-team-scales-detection-and-respon-9c9fc59c3bcafeeaThere’s a version of a security operations centre that exists mainly to be pointed at. It ingests every log it can reach, lights up a wall of dashboards, and staffs a rotation around the clock so that, if anyone asks, the answer is “yes, someone is watching.” It satisfies an… — continue reading the original from Groww: https://tech.groww.in/refusing-the-haystack-how-growws-cyber-defence-team-scales-detection-and-response-aece5d7b92aeWed, 29 Jul 2026 14:10:24 GMTfintech-paymentsbackenddata-sciencesecurityculturehttps://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/meet-test-companion-ai-that-helps-qa-teams-keep-pace-with-modern-development-491172d2ede4f072https://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/meet-test-companion-ai-that-helps-qa-teams-keep-pace-with-modern-development-491172d2ede4f072Test Companion builds on BrowserStack's growing AI portfolio, bringing intelligent testing directly into the IDE. Combined with our BrowserStack MCP Server and specialised AI agents, it helps QA teams move faster without changing the way they already work. — continue reading the original from BrowserStack: https://www.browserstack.com/blog/meet-test-companion-ai-that-helps-qa-teams-keep-pace-with-modern-developmentWed, 29 Jul 2026 13:05:29 GMTplatformdevops-sremobilehttps://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/tracemind-automating-the-chaos-of-crash-debugging-c9f506ea55dc1f5bhttps://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/tracemind-automating-the-chaos-of-crash-debugging-c9f506ea55dc1f5bThe Debugging Dilemma: Why TraceMind? In a complex mobile ecosystem, debugging a single production crash is rarely a straightforward task. Historically, developers at PhonePe faced a fragmented landscape of data points. When a crash alert hit, an engineer would often spend… — continue reading the original from PhonePe: https://tech.phonepe.com/tracemind-automating-the-chaos-of-crash-debuggingWed, 29 Jul 2026 02:19:32 GMTfintech-paymentsbackendscalehttps://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/freshworks-migration-journey-from-cassandra-to-scylla-0a58a52d00325dd2https://sutradhar.nilukush.workers.dev/read/freshworks-migration-journey-from-cassandra-to-scylla-0a58a52d00325dd2by Vigneshkumar Ak Background & Motivation Freshworks offers a suite of applications across customer support, ITSM, and CRM . Some of the Freshwork’s Platform applications rely on distributed databases to handle high throughput and low-latency workloads at scale . For a long… — continue reading the original from Freshworks: https://medium.com/freshworks-engineering-blog/freshworks-migration-journey-from-cassandra-to-scylla-a067495718f7Mon, 27 Jul 2026 13:24:41 GMTplatformfrontendculture