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The model is the easy part: Building the LLM Platform at Whatnot
Stas Sajin, Faithful Alabi, Peiyun Zhang, Peicheng Yu
Infrastructure24 févr. 2026
Scaling Whatnot: Behind the Largest Live Shopping Stream in US History
Whatnot Engineering
Marketplace30 avr. 2025
Evolving Feed Ranking at Whatnot
Ford Bohrmann, David Kawashima, Miguel Fernandez-Montes Cuberta
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2026
Driver Mode: Jumping levels of abstraction with agents
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Whatnot at Snowflake Summit 2026
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The model is the easy part: Building the LLM Platform at Whatnot
Stas Sajin, Faithful Alabi, Peiyun Zhang, Peicheng YuAI / ML
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How Whatnot’s Taxonomy Keeps Pace with a Marketplace That Won’t Sit Still
Marcus GeeMarketplace
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Your SOPs Are Already Code — You Just Can’t Run Them Yet
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Scaling Whatnot: Behind the Largest Live Shopping Stream in US History
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2025
Whatnot Engineering’s 2025 Blog Highlights
Whatnot Engineeringand Whatnot
18 déc. 20253 minutes de lecture
Avoiding the trap of Delegates, Action Handlers to the rescue
Abraham HuntApps
3 déc. 20253 minutes de lecture
Eliminating GraphQL Schema Bloat with AI (So You Don’t Have To)
Nikhil PatelAI / ML
18 nov. 20255 minutes de lecture
From low code to vibe code: how we bridged the gap for internal tools
Ty GiacaloneAI / ML
4 nov. 20254 minutes de lecture
The New User Dilemma: Why We Killed Our Heuristics (& What We Built Instead)
Miguel Fernandez-Montes Cuberta, David Kawashima, Ford BohrmannMarketplace
3 sept. 20257 minutes de lecture
The AI Thread at ElixirConf EU 2025: Highlights from Kraków
Whatnot EngineeringAI / ML
17 juin 20254 minutes de lecture
6x Faster ML Inference: Why Online >> Batch
Faithful Alabi, Jacob BurkettAI / ML
27 mai 20258 minutes de lecture
Evolving Feed Ranking at Whatnot
Ford Bohrmann, David Kawashima, Miguel Fernandez-Montes CubertaMarketplace
30 avr. 20256 minutes de lecture
2024
Whatamix: Blendable feed construction
Grace Li, Crystal Lee, Jared CasaleMarketplace
7 nov. 202411 minutes de lecture
Preparing the Marketplace for Game Time
Rafael GonzaqueInfrastructure
12 sept. 20246 minutes de lecture
Expecting the unexpected: Managing 3x traffic surges at Whatnot
Karol GilInfrastructure
17 juil. 20249 minutes de lecture
Whatnot’s Data-Driven Approach to Scalability & Reliability for Big On-Platform Events
Andrey KravtsovInfrastructure
18 juin 20248 minutes de lecture
Powering real-time magic moments through notifications
Ronnie Gilkey, Brian TombulMarketplace
16 avr. 20248 minutes de lecture
A Deepdive Debugging WebP Image Support on Android
Laurence MullerApps
6 mars 20247 minutes de lecture
Moving Slow to Move Fast: Real-time Chat Rate Limiting
Lauren ZhouMarketplace
27 févr. 20246 minutes de lecture
2023
The Top Whatnot Engineering Blog Posts of 2023
Whatnot Engineeringand Whatnot
20 déc. 20231 minute de lecture
Multicasting: Growing the Whatnot Community Across Platforms
Chaitra Ambadipudi, Cameron MatsuiMarketplace
29 nov. 20237 minutes de lecture
Managing a Dynamic dbt Project
Alice LeachData
14 nov. 202310 minutes de lecture
Coupon Crafting Inside Livestreams and Auctions
Wen Xiong, Brandon LeeMarketplace
10 oct. 20234 minutes de lecture
Enhancing Search Using Large Language Models
Yumeng Tao, Grace LiMarketplace
27 sept. 20235 minutes de lecture
How Whatnot Utilizes Generative AI to Enhance Trust and Safety
Charudatta (CD) WadMarketplace
21 sept. 20235 minutes de lecture
Migrating iOS GitHub Actions to Self-Hosted M1 Mac Runners
Adrian ŚliwaApps
23 août 20235 minutes de lecture
Whatnot Android Meetup in Poland
Whatnot EngineeringApps
4 août 20231 minute de lecture
Data Contracts in the Modern Data Stack
Zack KleinData
13 juil. 20237 minutes de lecture
Building Offers In Lives
Shreyas HirdayMarketplace
29 juin 20236 minutes de lecture
Building Whatnot’s First Ads Product — Boosted Livestreams
Steven BourkeMarketplace
26 mai 20235 minutes de lecture
Recap: Whatnot at Data Council 2023
Whatnot EngineeringData
18 mai 20232 minutes de lecture
Building the Seller Analytics Dashboard
Kendall Barber-Mayo, Edelita ValdezData
9 mai 20236 minutes de lecture
Empowering Engineers: How Dogfooding Led to Pinch to Zoom for Live Video Shopping
Seth SandlerApps
17 avr. 20233 minutes de lecture
Total (e)Clips of the Heart: Building Clipping to Hold Onto Livestreams Forever
Victoria Kwong, Aiden Song, Vincent TianMarketplace
22 mars 20235 minutes de lecture
Whatnot and Kumo.AI Leaders Discuss the Latest in Machine Learning [Videos]
Whatnot EngineeringAI / ML
16 mars 20232 minutes de lecture
Same Data, Sturdier Frame: Layering in Dimensional Data Modeling at Whatnot
Alice Leach, Lalita Yang, Stephen BaileyData
13 mars 20237 minutes de lecture
Signed, Sealed, Delivered — It’s Shipped
Blake MorganInfrastructure
23 févr. 20237 minutes de lecture
Building a Startup Growth Team From Scratch
Jeff Changand Whatnot
6 févr. 20233 minutes de lecture
Peeking Behind the Curtain of Secret Max Bid
Pranav VadrevuMarketplace
12 janv. 20237 minutes de lecture
2022
The top Whatnot engineering blog posts of 2022
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My Experience as One of Whatnot’s First Engineering Interns
Julia Zhangand Whatnot
14 déc. 20226 minutes de lecture
Refactoring Authentication at Whatnot
Bartek Hyży, Rafal Studnicki, Enze LiInfrastructure
9 déc. 20228 minutes de lecture
Harnessing the Power of Community Through Hypergrowth
Ludo Antonovand Whatnot
11 nov. 20223 minutes de lecture
How Chat Tagging Became a Growth Lever
Aiden SongMarketplace
28 oct. 20223 minutes de lecture
Creating a Lane of Our Own for iOS Automation
Alex ChaseApps
20 oct. 20225 minutes de lecture
Navigating Android’s UI Landscape
Andy ByrnesApps
12 oct. 20225 minutes de lecture
Scaling our Data Stack with Kafka and Real-Time Stream Processing
Zack KleinData
22 sept. 20226 minutes de lecture
The Power of Dogfooding at Whatnot
Evan Houand Whatnot
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Ship It: Building our Logistics Platform
Tyler LaredoMarketplace
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Open Letter on Scalability & Reliability
Blake MorganInfrastructure
30 août 20227 minutes de lecture