Patrick Zhang

This is the first in a series of field notes about what worked, what broke, and what I learned while practicing forward-deployed engineering inside my own organization.

A small story about how emotions cascade through people — and the responsibility to notice the cycle, break it, and start a positive one instead.

Tejas Shikhare of Netflix on how the company scaled GraphQL adoption through federated architecture and collaborative schema-design tooling.

Frank Yu of Coinbase on leveraging determinism to build financial exchanges — make important logic deterministic, then replay it anywhere for efficiency.

Jessica Kerr of Honeycomb on leveraging AWS Lambda to deliver sub-linear query performance for their observability platform.

Brandon Byars of ThoughtWorks on six API evolution patterns that let you avoid versioning by prioritizing the consumer's perspective and forward compatibility.

SoundCloud completed an eight-year migration from a monolith to a fully-fledged Backend-for-Frontend architecture using the Strangler pattern.

On joining InfoQ's editorial team — and the three reasons I write: the joy of sharing, building a personal identity, and professional growth.

Netflix built RENO, its Rapid Event Notification System, to deliver a consistent experience across platforms with a priority-based push-and-pull model.

Cloudflare's annual Landscape of API Traffic report finds API traffic grew faster than any other traffic type in 2021, reaching 54% of measured traffic.

Google and OpenMined released PipelineDP, an open-source library for applying differentially private aggregations to large datasets via batch processing.

A short story about burnout during COVID — and the support system, and a pair of skis, that brought Toby back.