Skip to content
HomeInsights

Insights

Ideas for building
better software.

Engineering perspectives on architecture, product development, AI, and the everyday decisions behind useful software.

From the engineering desk

Browse practical articles or follow the latest technology updates.

Subscribe via RSS →

Curated links from external sources — not 360Softy original articles.

ExternalFrontend Development
Vercel Blog

Monorepos

Vercel now supports monorepos for improved flexibility at scale. From the same Git repository, you can set up multiple projects to be built and deployed in parallel. Monorepos let your team use multiple programming languages and frameworks, collaborate better, and leverage microfrontend architectures. Learn more about how monoreops are changing how teams build software. Read more

Vercel BlogRead original
ExternalDatabase
PlanetScale Blog

Consensus algorithms at scale: Part 1 - Introduction

Be sure to follow along with this eight part series. You will find all posts in the series linked at the bottom of each article. Introduction Consensus algorithms in their theoretical and applied forms can be difficult to reason about. Often, these algorithms are solutions that have stumbled upon some good problems to solve. Unfortunately, the problems are evolving. And I don’t think these solutions are going to remain relevant much longer. Let’s start with defining the problems they solve: Dist

PlanetScale BlogRead original
ExternalDatabase
PlanetScale Blog

Learn Horizontal Scaling on PlanetScaleDB with Vitess — Rate Puppies in a Rust app with Sharded MySQL Database

Since writing this blog we have released a new version of PlanetScale. Learn more about what we’ve built and give it a try, and be sure to check out our docs. Please note, this blog refers to PlanetScaleDB v1 and is not applicable to our latest product. At PlanetScale, we have built PlanetScaleDB, a fully managed database-as-a-service on top of open source Vitess that enables horizontal scaling of MySQL far beyond what you can do with a single instance. In this blog, we’ll explain how sharding w

PlanetScale BlogRead original

Let’s start with a conversation

Tell us what you’re working on.

An idea, a challenge, or a system that needs to work better. We’ll help you understand the next step.