Engineering Insights

Scaling hundreds of thousands of database clusters on Kubernetes

Containers have made an incredible impact when it comes to making, deploying, and distributing applications. When building containerized applications, you no longer have to be concerned about dependency mismatches or the age-old “works on my machine” argument. And Kubernetes has simplified deploying and scaling these containerized applications. If a container crashes, Kubernetes can easily spin a new one up to handle the load! But have you ever wondered if you can run a database in Kubernetes? T

First Input Delay (FID) vs. Interaction to Next Paint (INP)

As of March 2024, Interaction to Next Paint (INP) will replace the First Input Delay (FID) as a new Core Web Vital. Read more

Optimizing web fonts

Web fonts are vital to branding and user experience. However, the inconsistent rendering of these fonts while they're being fetched from the server can cause unintended shifts in layout. Read more

Llama 2 on Amazon SageMaker a Benchmark

ChatGPT can now see, hear, and speak

GPT-4V(ision) system card

Inference for PROs

How Whop improved their Real Experience Score by 200% with the Next.js App Router

, an online marketplace for digital products, recognized the importance of having a seamless developer and end-user experience and aimed to transform their platform with a modern tech stack. Whop To achieve this, they focused on migrating from Ruby on Rails to , quickly followed by the incremental adoption of for even better page speed and developer experience.Next.jsApp Router Read more