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Weekend Reading: A weekly roundup of interesting Software Architecture and Programming articles from tech companies. Find fresh ideas and insights every weekend.
A Like Is Worth 0.5: How the X Algorithm Actually Ranks Your Feed
How X’s For You feed works, from candidate retrieval and Phoenix scoring to engagement weights, visibility rules, diversification, caching, and final feed assembly.
Weekend Reading #91
This week: Netflix shares how it runs LLM serving inside its own production ML platform, Uber shows a scalable identity-verification architecture for Apple Wallet IDs, Meta connects AI storage design directly to GPU utilization, and Cloudflare explains a reliability-focused redesign of Workers KV after a major outage.
Weekend Reading #90
Weekly engineering digest: Canva session revocations, Meta BPF scheduling, stateless MCP, and Cloudflare Kitesurf for AI agents.
Weekend Reading #89
This week: a practical guide to 10 ADR anti-patterns with concrete examples showing how to write architecture decisions that actually help your team. Uber shares two infrastructure deep dives — making OpenSearch zone-failure resilient with isolation groups and forced shard allocation awareness, and GitFarm, a Git-as-a-Service platform that delivers full monorepo checkouts in under 500ms. And Dropbox traces the decade-long evolution of Riviera from file preview service to a universal content processing platform now powering AI ingestion at 2.5 billion requests per day.