Stories by yarapavan

Why I got Fired from Facebook (a $100M dollar lesson) (2012)

What's to like in BlockChain, based on the 120K BTC Heist?

When Progressive Web Apps are better than native Android apps

The war Microsoft should have won

Wikipedia is not Therapy

How PayPal Scaled to Billions of Transactions Daily Using Just 8VMs

How Facebook Made Your Birthday a Business

A look into the shortcomings of Uber's approach to geofencing

Meet the cousins in the tech family behind Didi and Uber China

Here's the Economist Whose Ideas Guide Trump

The Security of Our Election Systems

Amazon Prime launches in India

How I built an app with 500,000 users in 5 days on a $100 server

Accelerating PHP hashing by “unoptimizing” it

The Hidden Dividends of Microservices

Microsoft Press Lets Editorial Staff Go

The life-changing benefits of side projects

The hedgehog and the fox

How to Write Your Own Recommendation System

$4.99: Hourly Wage of Amazon Mechanical Turkers