System Design

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The first 4 deep-dive videos

Apr 1 • Tyler Dane

Inside GitLab CI: From YAML to Green Check

The pipeline behind the pipeline

Mar 18 • Tyler Dane

GitLab's Architecture: A Technical Deep Dive

How a boring monolith powers the world's largest independent DevOps platform

Mar 11 • Tyler Dane

Ergo: a case study in approachable invention

What a small framework can teach us about system design

Mar 4 • Tyler Dane

The Actor Model: Messages and Mailboxes

The constraints that make actors powerful

Feb 25 • Tyler Dane

Discord: A Case Study in Performance Optimization

The techniques used to support trillions of messages

Feb 13 • Tyler Dane

Google Calendar: The Hidden Cost of “Simple” APIs

Simplicity for one party means complexity for another

Jan 28 • Tyler Dane

Google Meet: Real-time Video with WebRTC

Reverse-engineering how Meet uses WebRTC to make seamless video calls

Dec 31, 2025 • Tyler Dane

Google Calendar’s Secret Engineering Weapon: Restraint

Dec 24, 2025 • Tyler Dane

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