Speeding up Redis with compression
One of challenges we face almost everyday is to keep our API latency low. While the problem sounds simple on the surface, it gets...
Backend
Enforce Timeout: A DoorDash Reliability Methodology
“What would happen if we removed statement timeouts in our Postgresql databases?” That’s one of the questions asked in a management meeting. At the...
Scaling StatsD
Overview Monitoring is hugely important, especially for a site like DoorDash that operates 24/7. In modern-day DevOps, monitoring allows us to be responsive to...
Avoiding cache stampede at DoorDash
By Zohaib Sibte Hassan, Software Engineer at DoorDash One of the core mottoes on the engineering team at DoorDash is: We are only as...