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Paper shelf.
The infra-engineering articles I keep coming back to. Two ways in: a timeline of how internet-scale infra has evolved, or grouped by the company that shipped it.
2026
11 articles
Your Data is Made Powerful By Context (so stop destroying it already)
Charity Majors
State of AI Engineering
Datadog
State of DevSecOps
Datadog

Beyond Manual Checks: 24/7 Watchdog for Live Sports Streaming
JioHotstar

Orchestrating JioHotstar Traffic: Between a Loading Spinner and a Winning Six
JioHotstar

Tesseract: JioHotstar's Central Design Token System
JioHotstar
Guide to AI Observability
Kong
Ordering Biryani Without Missing a Six: The Swiggy × JioHotstar Story
Swiggy
How Ansible Automation Powers Uber
Uber

Modernizing KYC with AWS Serverless + Agentic AI for Financial Services
AWS

How Salesforce Migrated from Cluster Autoscaler to Karpenter (1000+ EKS Clusters)
AWS
2025
7 articles
How Discord Indexes Trillions of Messages
Discord

Scaling Infrastructure for Millions: Datacenter Abstraction, Part 2
JioHotstar
Understanding Observability, Monitoring & Telemetry
Icinga
Migrating Uber's Compute Platform to Kubernetes: A Technical Journey
Uber
Debugging the One-in-a-Million Failure: Migrating Pinterest's Search to K8s
Pinterest
Handling Network Throttling with AWS EC2 at Pinterest
Pinterest

How UNiDAYS Achieved AWS Region Expansion in 3 Weeks
AWS
2024
3 articles
2023
4 articles
2022
6 articles
2021
2 articles
2020
2 articles
2019
1 article
2017
2 articles