Inside Agoda’s Storefront: a Latency-Aware Reverse Proxy for Improving DNS Based Load Distribution

Leela Kumili — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 14:11:00 GMT

Agoda engineers developed Storefront, a Rust-based S3-compatible reverse proxy that improves load balancing, request routing, and observability across large-scale object storage systems. The proxy addresses DNS-based distribution limitations, implements latency-aware routing, cross-data-center optimizations, IO safeguards, credential-less authentication, and exposes telemetry via OpenTelemetry.

By Leela Kumili

Inside Netflix’s Graph Abstraction: Handling 650TB of Graph Data in Milliseconds Globally

Leela Kumili — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 13:54:00 GMT

Netflix engineers built Graph Abstraction, a high-throughput platform managing 650 TB of graph data with millisecond latency. Supporting services from Netflix Gaming’s social graphs to operational topology graphs, it maintains global availability via asynchronous replication. This article covers its architecture, caching, and traversal design for high-scale performance.

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