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How to Speed up Local Development of a Docker Application running on AWS

Building a local development environment can speed up innovation. Learn DoorDash's process in this technical guide and demo example

Mac Watrous Backend

How DoorDash Designed a Successful Write-Heavy Scalable and Reliable Inventory Platform

Keeping billions of items up to date requires a reliable write-heavy inventory platform. Learn how we built this system with Cockroach DB

Chuanpin Zhu Debalin Das Backend

How We Scaled New Verticals Fulfillment Backend with CockroachDB

To address the scalability issues in moving to new verticals our team migrated from PostgreSQL to CockroachDB as its new storage engine.

Yin Zhang Nikhil Pujari Kevin Chen ThulasiRam Peddineni Backend

How to Build a Flexible Customer Support Platform with Kotlin

Learn how DoorDash upgraded our Customer and Support Platform to support new verticals by migrating to a no code platform powered by Kotlin

Kishore Guruswamy Han Huang Backend

How DoorDash Secures Data Transfer Between Cloud and On-Premise Data Centers

Learn how DoorDash built a secure data transfer to a new payment processing vendor by establishing a private network link using AWS Direct Connect.

Roger Zeng Backend

Leveraging CockroachDB’s Change Feed for Real-Time Inventory Data Processing

In this post, we explore how DashMart’s engineering team used CockroachDB’s changefeed to enable real time inventory updates

Irene Chen Aleks Pesti Backend

How to Boost Code Coverage with Functional Testing

Introducing a non manual functional testing approach that can be run like unit tests locally or in a Continuous Integration (CI) pipeline.

Lev Neiman Venkataramanan Kuppuswamy Carlos Herrera James Lamine Backend

How DoorDash Ensures Velocity and Reliability through Policy Automation

Learn how DoorDash enables their engineers to self-serve infrastructure through policy automation while ensuring reliability and speed

Lin Du Juvenal Santos Backend

How to Handle Kubernetes Health Checks

Kubernetes probes are rarely fully understood, which can cause unintentional outages if internal understanding is insufficient.

Andres Ivanov Backend General

Functional Core, Imperative Shell – Using Structured Concurrency to Write Maintainable gRPC Endpoints in Kotlin

In this post, we will show how we write gRPC endpoints using the functional-core, imperative-shell pattern in Kotlin

James Lamine Backend

Taming Content Discovery Scaling Challenges with Hexagons and Elasticsearch

Learn how DoorDash scaled our campaign based fan out problem by evaluating S2, H3, Elastic search, and Geohash.

Ujjwal Gulecha Backend

Fast Feedback Loop for Kubernetes Product Development in a Production Environment

Learn how DoorDash used Signadot and multi tenancy to create a fast feedback loop for our Kubernetes port forward deployment strategy

Santosh Banda Misa Gohara

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