Search Results

Public culture documentation — not a full handbook but provides significant insight into how these companies operate. CompanyURLNotes Netflixjobs.netflix.com/cultureThe original culture deck. 20M+ views. "Freedom & Responsibility." HubSpothubspot.com/culture...

Companies that publish detailed engineering handbooks or dedicated documentation of their tech stack, architecture decisions, and tooling choices. CompanyURLStack Highlights PostHogposthog.com/handbook/engineering/stackFrontend: React, Redux, Kea, Ant Design...

Tech radars visualize a company's technology choices across rings (Adopt, Trial, Assess, Hold). Living documents showing stack decisions and rationale. CompanyURLNotes ThoughtWorksthoughtworks.com/radarThe original Tech Radar. Updated biannually. Industry-wi...

Public engineering-focused documentation — career frameworks, technical playbooks, and development practices. CompanyURLNotes thoughtbotthoughtbot.com/playbookLegendary playbook. Planning, designing, developing, running software. MonzoGitHubOpen-source progr...

Companies that publish extensive engineering blog posts documenting their architecture, stack decisions, and technical practices — goldmines for understanding real-world tech choices. CompanyURLWhat They Document Netflixnetflixtechblog.comJava, Spring Boot, ...

Best aggregation points for discovering even more handbooks and tech documentation. ResourceURLWhat It Covers awesome-handbooksGitHubThe definitive curated list. 34 companies and counting. cossmedia/company-handbooksGitHubOpen culture company handbooks colle...

Executive Summary Berlin's rental market is notoriously competitive. The standard strategy for expats—including Filipinos—is to secure temporary furnished housing for 1–3 months upon arrival, use that address to complete your Anmeldung (address registration), ...

Executive Summary Berlin is one of Europe's most bike-friendly cities: flat terrain, over 1,000 km of bike lanes, and roughly as many bicycles as people in Germany (~82 million bikes for ~84 million residents). As a new expat, you have five main paths to getti...

Executive Summary Germany's grocery landscape is very different from the Philippines. Stores close on Sundays (by law), you need to bring your own bags, produce often needs to be weighed by you, and bottles carry refundable deposits (Pfand). The good news: gro...

OverviewOne of the biggest surprises for Filipinos moving to Germany: most apartments come completely empty. No kitchen, no lights, sometimes not even curtains. You will need to furnish and equip your apartment from scratch. The good news is Berlin has an amaz...

Executive Summary Berlin's rental market is one of Europe's most competitive. The city has consistently missed construction targets (only ~16,000 of 20,000 units built in 2023), while population growth continues. Each apartment listing receives an average o...

Places API (New) The current-generation API replacing the legacy Places API. Uses a mandatory field mask in every request — omitting it returns an error. Billing is determined by the highest-tier field requested. Three-Tier SKU Billing TierWhat's IncludedCos...

Google Business Profile API Access all reviews (not limited to 5) — but only for locations you own or manage. Requires OAuth2 authentication. Key Endpoints EndpointPurpose accounts.locations.reviews.listAll reviews for one location accounts.locations.batchGe...

Google Maps Internal Protobuf API Google Maps communicates with its backend using Protocol Buffer (protobuf) encoding over HTTP. Several internal endpoints have been documented. tbm=map Search Endpoint Adding tbm=map to a Google search returns protobuf-over-J...

Protobuf Tools ToolLanguagePurposeLink pbtkPythonExtract and fuzz protobuf structures from ChromeGitHub google-maps-pb-decoderRubyDecode pb URL params to JSONGitHub deprotoPythonDecode, manipulate, re-encode protobuf strings (round-trip conversion)GitHub X...

Browser Automation Frameworks The foundation technique used by most scrapers. A browser renders Maps, executes JS, and extracts from the DOM. Playwright (Most Popular) Microsoft's library. Used by gosom/google-maps-scraper, HasData, many commercial tools. Sup...

Community-Sourced Techniques Practical techniques from Reddit, HN, and forums — the stuff not in vendor blog posts. Grid-Scanning / Map Splitting (Essential) Overcome the 120-result limit per search by dividing areas into smaller grid cells. Auto-adjust zoom ...

Commercial Scraping Platforms Outscraper (Best Value) Pricing$1-3/1K records (basic); ~$14/1K full enrichment Free Tier500 records (first 500 reviews free) Fields74 fields incl. name, address, phone, hours, rating, reviews, photos, emails ReviewsFull text, n...