Weekend Reading #52

Weekend Reading: A weekly roundup of interesting Software Architecture and Programming articles from tech companies. Find fresh ideas and insights every weekend.

Unlocking Financial Insights with Finch: Uber's Conversational AI Data Agent

Uber has created Finch, a Slack-based AI agent that turns natural language questions into real-time financial insights.

Debugging the One-in-a-Million Failure: Migrating Pinterest's Search Infrastructure to Kubernetes

The article describes what turned out to be the root cause of one-in-a-million queries slowing down 100× times.

How Uber Processes Early Chargeback Signals

An article about the techniques Uber uses to detect chargeback fraud.

Optimizing LinkedIn Sales Navigator's search pipeline with Spark

Article on how LinkedIn moved over 100 data manipulation jobs to Spark, reducing turnaround time from 6-7 hours to about 3x.