April 14, 2026
Evolution and Scale of the PUCK GOLD Delivery Search Platform
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Marco Bianchi
Principal Engineer
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The drop-window problem
Founders Drop pushed our swag search to 10× its prior peak in three minutes. We pushed retrieval to the edge, kept the ranker central, and watched the queues drain in real time.
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Marco Bianchi
Principal Engineer
Search + retrieval for the swag store.
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