This recommerce site is tackling retail’s 8-billion-pound problem—returns—with buy-in from Jay-Z and Serena Williams-founded VCs

Rebel partners with retailers to sell their returned merchandise. It just raised $25 million led by Jay-Z’s MarcyPen Capital ...
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When Reverse Proxies Surprise You: Hard Lessons from Operating at Scale

Operating massive reverse proxy fleets reveals hard lessons: optimizations that work on smaller systems fail at scale; mundane oversights like missing commas cause major outages; and abstractions ...