Hacker News with Generative AI: Case Study

Aetna reimburses 25% less than what they claim (case study) (johnsonkevin.com)
tl;dr - Aetna says they’ll reimburse 140% of the “Medicare Allowable Rate” for out-of-network medical expenses. In my case they find that number and reduce it by 25%.

Healthcare, Insurance, Consumer Rights, Case Study

17 points by kevin499 15 days ago | 0 comments

Scala 3 Migration: Report from the field (pierre-ricadat.com)
April 30, 2024. I decided to dedicate a week to migrate our main project at work (a multiplayer mobile game server in production for over 4 years) from Scala 2.13 to Scala 3.

Scala, Programming Languages, Software Development, Migration, Case Study

159 points by AzzieElbab 106 days ago | 123 comments

Case Study: ByteDance Uses eBPF to Enhance Networking Performance (ebpf.foundation)
Bytedance, a global technology company operating a wide range of content platforms around the world at massive scale, faced significant challenges in ensuring performance and stability across its data centers.

Case Study, Networking, Performance, eBPF, ByteDance

178 points by ChrisArchitect 114 days ago | 26 comments

Cash App migrated 400TB of data to PlanetScale's cloud (planetscale.com)
Cash App's move to PlanetScale resulted in streamlined database operations, improved performance, and reduced operational overhead.

Cloud Computing, Database Management, Software, Fintech, Case Study

50 points by mschoening 192 days ago | 14 comments

Lessons learned from a successful Rust rewrite (gaultier.github.io)
I have written about my on-going rewrite-it-to-Rust effort at work: 1, 2, 3. And now it's finished. Let's have a look back at what worked, what didn't, and what can be done about it.

Rust, Software Development, Programming Languages, Case Study, Best Practices

146 points by broken_broken_ 205 days ago | 42 comments

How we migrated onto K8s in less than 12 months (figma.com)

Kubernetes, Cloud Migration, Software Development, Case Study

298 points by ianvonseggern 288 days ago | 383 comments

Approach used to convert the Hotmail web server farm from Unix to Windows (2002) (archive.org)