Asynchronous task management using Gevent improves scalability and resource efficiency for distributed systems.
Category Archives: Backend
Serving Multiple Websites and Business Logic From a Single Platform
Building flexibility into the DoorDash platform lets us scale to serve a variety of retailers.
Building a More Reliable Checkout Service at Scale with Kotlin
In 2020, DoorDash engineers extracted the consumer order checkout flow out of our monolithic service and reimplemented it in a new Kotlin microservice service.
Using Active Probing to Detect Infrastructure Failures
DoorDash engineers built Infra Prober, a new monitoring tool, to continually look for component failures and provide accurate alerts.
Improving Scalability, Reliability, and Efficiency of a Python Service with Gevent
When trying to scale a distributed system a common obstacle is not that there aren’t enough resources available, it’s that they are not being used efficiently.
Building a gRPC Client Standard with Open Source to Boost Reliability and Velocity
In a microservice architecture, cross-service communication happens under a set of global rules that are hard to effectively enforce across all services without standardizing client-service communication.
Platform Optimization Through Better API Design
As DoorDash migrated to a microservices architecture, we found an opportunity to redesign our APIs, resulting in better overall client performance.
Tailoring Gradle and Docker for Rapid Local Development
As technology companies race to release their next features, any delay in productivity can be extremely detrimental, making an efficient development build process essential.
Companies that use Kubernetes and Docker in production environments most likely use Docker for local development.
2020 Hindsight: Building Reliability and Innovating at DoorDash
DoorDash recaps a number of its engineering highlights from 2020, including its microservices architecture, data platform, and new frontend development.
Minimizing Risk for API Extraction in a Major Migration Project
DoorDash engineering describes its three step process for safely migrating business logic as APIs.