Weekend Reading #59

Weekend Reading: A weekly roundup of interesting Software Architecture and Programming articles from tech companies. Find fresh ideas and insights every weekend.

This week: skip-level meeting insights, Uber’s standardized mobile analytics, event-driven architecture best practices, and double-booking solutions at scale.

Skip-Level Meetings

👉 Worth reading if you lead teams and want to build trust across layers.

Explains what skip-level meetings are, why they’re useful for team alignment, and what pitfalls to avoid. Includes tips for managers and employees to make these talks meaningful.

How Uber Standardized Mobile Analytics for Cross-Platform Insights

👉 Helpful if you’re dealing with fragmented analytics or multiple app versions.

Uber engineers describe how they unified analytics across multiple mobile apps. The solution reduced duplicate work, improved data quality, and helped align product metrics.

How to Stop Your Event-Driven Architecture from Turning Into Chaos

👉 Great read if your Kafka or message-based system is growing fast and losing structure.

A practical guide to keeping event-driven systems maintainable. The author shows how to avoid tangled dependencies, unclear ownership, and untraceable event flows.

Solving Double Booking at Scale: System Design Patterns from Top Tech Companies

👉 Ideal if you’re interested in distributed locking and concurrency control at scale.

Explores how major tech companies handle double-booking issues in high-concurrency systems like Airbnb and Uber. Covers system design patterns to ensure consistency.