Arc Notes Weekly #94: Rize
This week, master caching, cut build times like Slack, explore email protocols, unlock distributed systems insights, and sharpen search relevance with judgment lists—all in one go!
This week, master caching strategies in minutes, cut your build times like Slack, and dive into the secrets of email protocols. Plus, uncover key lessons from large-scale distributed systems and sharpen your search relevance skills with judgment lists.
Enjoy this week's round-up!
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Mastering IMAP: A Simple Guide to Email Protocols
Dive into the world of email protocols with this guide on IMAP, and learn how to connect to your mailserver using simple commands. Discover the intricacies of email communication and how you can manage your inbox like a pro!Master Caching Strategies in Just 5 Minutes
Unlock the secrets of caching with this quick guide that breaks down five essential strategies, from Cache-Aside to Write-Behind, ensuring you never stumble in a system design interview again! Discover which approach suits your application's needs and boost your performance today.How Slack Halved Their Build Times
Discover how Slack's DevXP team slashed build times by 50% by optimizing their E2E testing pipeline, saving time and resources with smarter build strategies and cached frontend assets!Pointer: Essential Reading For Engineering Leaders
If you find Architecture Notes useful, check out Pointer. It’s essential reading for engineering leaders to hone in on improving their soft skills. Super high quality engineering-related content, only, with leadership writing and the latest engineering best practices to help you level up without the fluff.
Key Insights from Building Large-Scale Distributed Systems
Discover the crucial lessons learned from developing and maintaining large distributed systems, including the importance of designing for failure, managing cache clusters, and ensuring idempotency to prevent duplicate processing. These insights can help you navigate the complexities of scaling your architecture beyond a single container.Refactoring Gone Wild: Transforming Code Smells Into Clean Code
Ever found yourself tangled in a web of messy, hard-to-maintain code? Discover how to identify and refactor common coding pitfalls into clean, elegant, and self-explanatory code using Kotlin's powerful features. Say goodbye to the 'Pyramid of Doom' and 'Mystery Parameters' and hello to a more readable and maintainable codebase!How AI Models Are Evaluated for SNAP Benefits
Dive into the process of building an evaluation to test AI models on SNAP (food stamp) program prompts. Discover how these evaluations can improve AI's performance in crucial areas like safety net benefits, and why sharing these insights can help others tackle similar challenges in healthcare, disability benefits, and more!Understanding Judgment Lists: A Key to Search Relevance
Discover how judgment lists can transform search relevance evaluation from a subjective task into a systematic practice, providing a safety net for search teams to innovate without fear of breaking the system. Learn how these lists help rank search results effectively and explore the different methods of creating them.Projects
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Sniffnet is a cross-platform, intuitive tool that lets you comfortably monitor your internet traffic. With support for multiple languages and a user-friendly interface, it's a must-have for anyone looking to keep an eye on their network activity!anubis
Discover how Anubis uses proof-of-work to 'weigh the soul' of incoming HTTP requests, effectively blocking AI crawlers and protecting your web resources!
