Adobe Tech Blog
medium.com/adobetech · Company blog · on HN since 2018
Engineering blog from Adobe developers on Medium, covering WebAssembly, Apache Spark and Iceberg, serverless, open source and performance tuning.
What HN saysHN commenters cite it as a source of examples, such as Acrobat running on WebAssembly, a platform team scaling guide, and a fast duplicate-filtering tool.
19HN people shared it
5linked it in comments
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Most-shared posts
- 1Filtering Duplicates on the Command Line: 30x Faster than sort|uniq3 people · 4 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 2Acrobat on the Web, Powered by WebAssembly3 people · 3 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 3Why I, a Serverless Developer, Don’t Care About Your Containers2 people · 12 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 4SVG Native: Adobe Open Sourcing SVG Native Viewer1 people · 7 points · first shared 2019 · 1 comments on HN
- 5How Adobe is changing its culture around open source1 people · 7 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
- 6How to Analyze Assembly to Guide Optimization Strategies1 people · 4 points · first shared 2020 · 1 comments on HN
- 7Adobe Does Millions of Records per Second Using Apache Spark Optimizations-21 people · 3 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 8Adobe's pipeline for high‑throughput data ingestion with Apache Iceberg1 people · 3 points · first shared 2025 · 1 comments on HN
- 9Making the Adobe Cloud More Resilient – With Chaos1 people · 2 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
- 10How I Learned to Stop Fighting the Borrow Checker and Love Dirty Structs1 people · 2 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 11Massive Data Processing in Adobe Experience Platform Using DeltaLake1 people · 2 points · first shared 2021 · 1 comments on HN
- 12Experiences with Spinnaker on Adobe Experience Platform1 people · 2 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 13Search Optimization for Large Data Sets for GDPR1 people · 2 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 14Getting equals() right right using runtime polymorphism, symbols and ferrum.js1 people · 1 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 15Adobe XD plugin APIs are here1 people · 1 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
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konaraddi · 2020-12-31
Additional examples of WebAssembly being used at scale that I haven't seen others mention yet:
Microsoft - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/garage/wall-of-fame/calc-ts-in-excel-f…
Adobe - https://medium.com/adobetech/acrobat-on-the-web-powered-by-webassembly…
Fastly - https://www.fastly.com/blog/announcing-lucet-fastly-native-webassembly…
andendau · 2020-06-21
There's a good blog on scaling a platform team and how to keep up with growth. https://medium.com/adobetech/why-do-organizations-need-a-platform-team…
dpc_pw · 2020-03-03
lmkg · 2019-04-05
Adobe has a write-up about the impact this has on the Adobe Marketing Cloud:
https://medium.com/adobetech/safari-itp-2-1-impact-on-adobe-experience…
mbesto · 2022-06-14
> Not only it costs more, it also does not really mitigate risk and it just gives an excuse to a manager to punt the problem to someone else.
> You can do it in-house, or you can outsource it
You are 100% correct companies should do this AND better yet this is exactly what is referred to as "Buy vs Build"[0]. You keep trying to convince me and others that companies ARE NOT DOING THIS ANALYSIS. I'm telling you that they most certainly are because it's literally what I do for a living (tech strategy consulting). And guess what, the reason companies keep coming back to closed-sourced providers (GitHub, etc.) is because over and over again we conclude it makes financial sense to do so.
> at least throw some money to the developers of the open alternatives as a hedge and eventual way out.
Now, this part is a hilarious suggestion. No one does this or would do this, because it makes zero financial sense.
[0] - https://medium.com/adobetech/when-to-build-vs-buy-enterprise-platform-…