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Building Zettabyte DNA Storage with CRISPR-Cas
The world is running out of space. Not physical space—we have plenty of land—but data space.
Beyond Fat Trees: The Future of AI Networking
Imagine you are orchestrating a symphony with 50,000 musicians. Now, imagine that for the symphony to sound coherent, every single musician must be able to whi…
2024 Multi-Cloud DNS Cascade Postmortem
It was Tuesday, July 16th, at exactly 14:12:03 UTC. For most of the world, it was just another afternoon of scrolling, streaming, and Slack-pinging. For our Si…
Optimizing CRISPR Delivery with Engineered AAVs
Imagine you’ve spent a decade building the world’s most precise code editor. It can find a single typo in a three-billion-line repository and fix it instantly…
Engineering Zero-Downtime Multi-Region Systems
Picture this: It’s 2:00 AM on a Tuesday. You’re deep in REM sleep when your PagerDuty starts screaming. AWS us-east-1—the backbone of your infrastructure—has j…
Single-digit microsecond event streaming at exabyte scale
Time is the new currency. In the world of real-time analytics, a microsecond isn't just a unit of measurement—it's a competitive moat. If your event stream tak…
Distributed Transactions Across Three Continents
So you want to run a bank. Or a global booking system. Or maybe just keep a shopping cart in sync between New York, Singapore, and Frankfurt.
Engineering Global Strong Consistency at Scale
Imagine you’re running a global high-frequency trading platform or a seat-reservation system for a world-touring pop star. A user in Singapore clicks "Buy" at…
MicroVM Snapshotting & Predictive Pre-Warming Redefine FaaS
You’ve got 10 milliseconds. The function hasn’t been invoked in 45 minutes. The container is gone. The kernel isn’t booted. You have 10 milliseconds to serve a…