AI
Streaming LLM Responses: UX and Backend Plumbing
How to implement LLM response streaming end to end, from server-sent events to handling structured output and mid-stream tool calls.
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Streaming
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Spotify
From Peer-to-Peer to CDNs: How Spotify Actually Streams Audio
Why Spotify's early client-side streaming relied on peer-to-peer delivery, and why it later moved entirely to server and CDN-based delivery instead.
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Netflix
Per-Title Encoding: Why Netflix Stopped Using One Bitrate Ladder for Everything
How Netflix rebuilt its video encoding pipeline around per-title complexity analysis and the VMAF quality metric to cut bandwidth without hurting quality.
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LinkedIn
Why a Job Site Invented Kafka
How LinkedIn's tangle of point-to-point data pipelines led to Kafka's commit-log abstraction, and how one internal tool became industry infrastructure.
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