Issue #8 · 2025-08-11
Stop guessing what will break when traffic spikes. The awesome-scalability repo is your new mentor—hundreds of production-tested checklists, architecture blueprints, and post-mortems pulled straight from Netflix, Uber, and Amazon. One weekend with this repo can save you six months of consultant bills and one very public outage.
GitHub Trending · 7 min read
This open-source starter gives you Stripe, Postgres, Docker, and CI/CD in under 10 minutes—no more stitching tutorials together. Clone it, swap in your domain, and you’re live with the same stack that powers multiple YC companies.
reddit · 4 min read
GitMCP spins up a remote MCP server so Cursor, Claude Desktop, or Windsurf can read your private repos as if they were first-party documentation. No more stale READMEs—just point the tool at the repo and start asking questions.
reddit · 3 min read
Magisk has quietly become the de-facto tool for developers who need root for testing but still want to ship to the Play Store. The systemless modules let you swap out binaries, mock sensors, and automate hardware tests without leaving forensic traces.
reddit · 5 min read
Flintlock gives you an open-source control plane for Firecracker, turning spare servers into your own mini-Lambda. Spin up 1000 VMs in the time it takes Docker to start 100 containers—perfect for burst CI jobs or edge functions.
Serverless / Edge workloads
Go · 38 stars
A step-by-step log of booting five thousand Erlang BEAM instances on a single Ampere box. The write-up is a goldmine for anyone tuning the BEAM or chasing extreme core counts on ARM.
High-concurrency services
Erlang · 81 stars
engineering.fyi indexes hundreds of dev blogs so you can grep across Airbnb’s Istio notes, Shopify’s rewrite playbook, and Stripe’s API design posts in one query. Great for evidence-based architecture decisions.
Research / due-diligence
Web · 98 stars
Stanford & DeepMind researchers show that large models will spontaneously create shorthand and private vocabulary during extended chats. The trick is now open-sourced—expect smarter agents that compress messages and slash token cost.
Human-AI Interaction · Stanford, DeepMind · 8 min read
PanelTR turns any LLM into a data analyst by running a five-expert panel inside the context window. Drop a CSV, ask a question, and watch the agents argue until they converge on the right pivot table.
Data Analysis · UCLA, AllenNLP · 6 min read
Chemists at OCatalyst created a sunlight-activated material that cracks “forever chemicals” into harmless fluoride. If you work in water treatment or industrial compliance, the open lab notes give you everything needed to pilot a reactor.
Environmental Tech · OCatalyst Group · 5 min read