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A practical case study on building a JavaScript-powered GitHub Pages page that creatively visualizes a periodic-table podcast for a Berlin hack competition tied to JSConf.eu.

Berlin JSConf.eu conference and SoundCloud engineering crew collaboration

SoundCloud invites Berlin-area developers and hackers to the Hack and Tell meetup at C-base, and previews a slate of engineering events and conferences around the world.

SoundCloud's developer outreach goes on the road with Hack and Tell Berlin, a five-minute-stage demo meetup for Berlin hackers to mingle with SoundCloud engineers and explore upcoming tech events across Europe.

SoundCloud teams up with Berlin hackers for Hack and Tell and highlights a calendar of upcoming engineer-focused events and conferences featuring SoundCloud engineers.

A heads-up for developers in Berlin: SoundCloud is supporting an upcoming event

Analyzes how a series of well‑intended Rails and MySQL practices contributed to a major outage at SoundCloud, tracing the cascade from cache invalidation and touch-based updates to binlog growth, replication challenges, and forensic lessons for reliability.

A hard-earned lesson in how well-intentioned Rails/MySQL practices—such as touch-based cache invalidation, counter caches, and ORM destruction callbacks—can converge into a major outage, underscoring that pursuing a single root cause is often misleading and highlighting the need for forensics, tuning, and data-debt stewardship.

SoundCloud's outage demonstrates how well-intentioned Rails/MySQL patterns can cascade into a system-wide incident, emphasizing careful data modeling, cache strategy, replication awareness, and forensics-led learning.

Exploring the connection between SoundCloud's recent outage and the concept of 'doing the right thing' in John Allspaw's message.

A concise exploration of mounting a proxy for the SoundCloud mobile API to bypass CORS and enable authenticated access, comparing nginx-based and Node-based implementations with upstreams and load-balancing.

Implementing a mountable proxy architecture to let a mobile SoundCloud client securely access the API through Nginx and Node.js, addressing CORS, redirects, and OAuth2 authentication.