Engineering
Building for Resilience
How Block’s Engineering Teams Kept Systems Running During the AWS Outage
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Block Engineering Blog
Every engineering problem tells a story. Here, we share the breakthroughs, lessons, and experiments that shape how we think, how we build, and how we expand access to the global economy.
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Engineering
The LeakCanary Method
Root causing Android memory leaks
Engineering
Shrinking Elephants
Managing very large projects with Gradle and Intellij IDEA-based IDEs
Engineering
GenAI Security Principles
Building secure AI products at scale
Engineering
Jack Dorsey's Vibe Coding Tips
Learning from Jack's approach to AI-assisted development
Engineering
ElasticGraph 1.0 is Here
Schema-driven, scalable, cloud-native, batteries-included GraphQL, backed by Elasticsearch / OpenSearch
Engineering
Ending Android USB Freezes
Block's contributions to Android 16
Engineering
Augur: An Open Source Bitcoin Fee Estimation Library
Engineering
Block's Playbook for Designing MCP Servers
Lessons from scaling 60+ MCP servers: Why workflow-first design trumps traditional API approaches
Data Science
Data Mesh: Lessons from the Microservices Playbook
A reflection on evolving data architectures — what we can learn from the microservices movement.
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Showing 1-10 of 16 posts
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