
A surprising amount of our customer feedback boils down to, “Can you please make this API response into a PDF?” I long protested because, technology. But sometimes it’a better to just do the thing. Hence, moar PDF’s: plaid.com/docs/statement…
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A surprising amount of our customer feedback boils down to, “Can you please make this API response into a PDF?” I long protested because, technology. But sometimes it’a better to just do the thing. Hence, moar PDF’s: plaid.com/docs/statement…


A large part of Lyft's backend is powered by Python services that use a concurrency lib called gevent, which can be very powerful, but comes w/ tradeoffs. @shivtools & @roywilliamsiii explore this in a talk at @ScaleByTheBay. youtube.com/watch?v=KmxVdV…





In the first of a 4-post series, Garrett Heel takes us through the history of scaling engineering productivity on Lyft's microservices: eng.lyft.com/scaling-produc…










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