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Learning Scala at SoundCloud
April 19th, 2022 by Bhuvaneshwari ChinnaduraiThis is the story of how I joined SoundCloud and learned Scala as a Golang developer with no prior knowledge of Scala.
The End of the Public API Strangler
March 14th, 2022 by Dónal O'Brien and Jorge CreixellThis is the story of how we used the Strangler pattern to migrate our public API from a monolithic codebase to a fully fledged BFF over the course of eight years. It also discusses some of the trials and tribulations we encountered along the way.
What Is New with Periskop in 2022
February 1st, 2022 by Marc TuduriWe made some updates to Periskop, our internal pull-based exception monitoring service. To learn about what is new in 2022, read on.
Obvious Ownership: A Sensible Humane Registry
January 6th, 2022 by Julio ZyngerImagine yourself as an engineer who just joined SoundCloud. Besides meeting your colleagues and getting your new laptop, badge, and that cool branded hoodie, the first weeks at work will be about exploration. Onboarding involves a lot of “looking around”: finding mentorship, getting to know the company’s culture, and exploring codebases — and most likely, you’ll want to contribute code too!
The first question you might ask is “What do I even work on?”. With time, you’ll identify a few sibling…
Tiny Letter from Kafka
October 13th, 2021 by Kaylee ChoDiscover the powerful design of Apache Kafka and how SoundCloud consumes events from Kafka.
Service Architecture at SoundCloud — Part 3: Domain Gateways
September 17th, 2021 by Marc Tuduri, Kim Covaci, Bernd Louis and Jorge CreixellDiscover how SoundCloud extended the concept of Value-Added Services to Domain Gateways.
Service Architecture at SoundCloud — Part 2: Value-Added Services
August 20th, 2021 by Bejal Lewis and Marc TuduriLearn about the evolution of architectural patterns at SoundCloud — from BFFs to Value-Added Services.
Service Architecture at SoundCloud — Part 1: Backends for Frontends
July 29th, 2021 by Jorge CreixellDiscover how service architecture has evolved at Soundcloud over the past few years...
Did I Break You? Reverse Dependency Verification
May 25th, 2021 by Julio ZyngerLet's take a look at techniques we can use to confidently release updates to an internal library that's integrated into hundreds of projects across the company — even if they're API-breaking changes.
Building a Healthy On-Call Culture
March 11th, 2021 by Christine PattonIn this post, we share some of the best practices we apply when SoundCloud engineers take on out-of-hours support duties.