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How we build, scale and run the infrastructure behind Online Cloud Solutions.

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21 Engineering Articles

Engineering7 min read

How We Achieved 99.99% Uptime

A deep dive into our infrastructure and the engineering decisions behind our reliability.

Jan 5, 2025Read Article

Engineering10 min read

Building Our Global CDN: Lessons Learned

How we built a content delivery network spanning 50+ regions for lightning-fast file access.

Dec 20, 2024Read Article

Engineering12 min read

Scaling to 10 Billion Files: Our Database Journey

From PostgreSQL to a distributed system: how we scaled our storage infrastructure.

Nov 15, 2024Read Article

Engineering8 min read

Our Migration to Kubernetes: A Year Later

Reflecting on our container orchestration journey and the benefits we've seen.

Oct 30, 2024Read Article

Engineering12 min read

Rust at Online Cloud Solutions: Why We Rewrote Our Core

The technical journey of moving our sync engine from C++ to Rust for safety and speed.

Feb 13, 2025Read Article

Engineering9 min read

Edge Caching Strategies for Large Media Files

How we deliver 4K video previews instantly regardless of your bandwidth.

Feb 07, 2025Read Article

Engineering8 min read

Serverless Architecture: Pros and Cons at Scale

We moved 30% of our backend to serverless functions. Here is what we learned.

Jan 30, 2025Read Article

Engineering11 min read

Optimizing PostgreSQL for Petabyte Scale

Techniques we used to keep our metadata queries under 100ms with billions of rows.

Jan 22, 2025Read Article

Engineering10 min read

From Monolith to Microservices: Our Backend Evolution

Splitting our massive codebase into manageable, independent services.

Feb 26, 2025Read Article

Engineering8 min read

Debugging Distributed Systems at Scale

Tools and techniques for finding a needle in a haystack of logs.

Feb 24, 2025Read Article

Engineering7 min read

How We Reduced Our AWS Bill by 40%

Optimization strategies that saved us millions in cloud infrastructure costs.

Feb 22, 2025Read Article

Engineering9 min read

Implementing Real-Time Collaboration with WebSockets

Technical deep dive into the protocol powering our live editing features.

Feb 20, 2025Read Article

Engineering6 min read

The Challenges of Cross-Platform Mobile Development

Balancing native performance with code reuse in React Native.

Feb 18, 2025Read Article

Engineering5 min read

Ensuring Data Integrity with Checksums

How we verify every bit of data transferred to prevent corruption.

Feb 16, 2025Read Article

Engineering10 min read

WASM in the Browser

Running high-performance C++ image processing on the client side.

Mar 13, 2025Read Article

Engineering7 min read

Optimizing React Performance

Techniques we used to reduce our main bundle size by 40%.

Mar 06, 2025Read Article

Engineering12 min read

Database Sharding Strategies

Horizontal scaling lessons from handling billions of file records.

Feb 27, 2025Read Article

Engineering6 min read

Green Computing

Optimizing server load to reduce energy consumption.

Feb 25, 2025Read Article

Engineering9 min read

Future of Work AI Agents

How autonomous AI agents are becoming the new project managers for collaborative teams.

Apr 22, 2025Read Article

Engineering8 min read

Machine Learning on the Edge

Why processing data locally on your device is faster, safer, and better for privacy.

Apr 25, 2025Read Article

Engineering7 min read

Cross Platform Harmony

Living with Mac, Windows, and Linux. How to make them play nice together.

Jun 08, 2025Read Article

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