Hacker News with Generative AI: Reliability

Fabric Is Just Plain Unreliable, and Microsoft's Hiding It (brentozar.com)
Last week, Microsoft Fabric went down yet again for hours on multiple continents.
Software, Microsoft, Cloud Computing, Reliability
117 points by ko_pivot 4 days ago | 12 comments
The pragmatic magic of semi-formal methods (antithesis.com)
So, you’re building a software system that has to work, period. It’s supposed to be a reliable, secure, and maybe even a mission-critical system. No pressure, right? Traditional software engineering practices - code reviews, automated testing, and fuzzing - have carried you this far, but you worry that they might not be powerful enough for this new system. You crave confidence in your code, but you don’t know how to achieve it.
Software Engineering, Software Development, Reliability, Security
3 points by wwilson 6 days ago | 0 comments
Using only half the outbox pattern (medium.com)
In distributed systems, reliable communication between services cannot be taken for granted. You might update a database record successfully, but if publishing an event to Kafka or RabbitMQ fails immediately after, inconsistencies can appear — issues that may not be visible right away but can cause serious problems later.
Distributed Systems, Messaging, Reliability, Kafka, RabbitMQ
5 points by trimalchio55 21 days ago | 2 comments
CXL and the Fawkes Principle: How to burst into flames and be reborn (medium.com)
RAS, short for Reliability, Availability and Serviceability is a key pillar of any infrastructure solution in the enterprise space.
Marketing, Business, Strategy, Growth Hacking, Reliability, Availability, Serviceability (RAS)
4 points by tanelpoder 34 days ago | 0 comments
Understanding US Power Outages – By Brian Potter (construction-physics.com)
Modern civilization relies on electric power for almost everything, and even small disruptions to electric service are incredibly disruptive. Because of this, we demand a high level of reliability in electrical service.
Power Outages, Electricity, Infrastructure, Reliability
14 points by rbanffy 38 days ago | 10 comments
Agency vs. Control vs. Reliability in Agent Design (fin.ai)
The ability to perform high-agency tasks is important, but it is just as important to ensure that agents can execute tasks competently, reliably, and consistently, when deploying them in high value use cases.
Artificial Intelligence, Agent Design, Reliability, Control
21 points by destraynor 42 days ago | 5 comments
AI agents: Less capability, more reliability, please (sergey.fyi)
Artificial Intelligence, Reliability, Research
423 points by serjester 53 days ago | 254 comments
Handling billions of invocations – best practices from AWS Lambda (amazon.com)
AWS Lambda is a highly scalable and resilient serverless compute service. With over 1.5 million monthly active customers and tens of trillions of invocations processed, scalability and reliability are two of the most important service tenets. This post provides recommendations and insights for implementing highly distributed applications based on the Lambda service team’s experience building its robust asynchronous event processing system. It dives into challenges you might face, solution techniques, and best practices for handling noisy neighbors.
Serverless Computing, AWS Lambda, Best Practices, Scalability, Reliability
15 points by mariuz 65 days ago | 0 comments
The real failure rate of EBS (planetscale.com)
PlanetScale has deployed millions of Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes across the world. We create and destroy tens of thousands of them every day as we stand up databases for customers, take backups, and test our systems end-to-end. Through this experience, we have an unique viewpoint into the failure rate and mechanisms of EBS, and have spent a lot of time working on how to mitigate them.
Cloud Computing, Databases, Reliability, Data Storage
113 points by QuinnyPig 66 days ago | 30 comments
Are SSDs more reliable than hard drives? (2021) (backblaze.com)
Solid-state drives (SSDs) continue to become more and more a part of the data storage landscape. And while our SSD 101 series has covered topics like upgrading, troubleshooting, and recycling your SSDs, we’d like to test one of the more popular declarations from SSD proponents: that SSDs fail much less often than our old friend, the hard disk drive (HDD).
Data Storage, Hardware, Reliability, SSDs, HDDs
77 points by fanf2 93 days ago | 69 comments
12 years of Backblaze data center storage drives, visualized (benjdd.com)
1 small node -> 100 drives
Data Storage, Visualization, Hardware, Reliability
147 points by bddicken 93 days ago | 47 comments
Doubts remain over reliability of Texas power grid (npr.org)
Four years after deadly blackout, doubts remain over reliability of Texas’ power grid Officials say they've improved the grid, but new challenges have emerged as demand grows
Texas, Energy, Power Grid, Reliability, Blackouts
66 points by geox 96 days ago | 70 comments
Tolerating full cloud outages with Monzo Stand-in (monzo.com)
Our customers reasonably expect to be able to spend on their card, make bank transfers and pay their bills 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Their lives don’t have downtime for maintenance so nor should we. We dedicate a lot of our engineering effort to minimise the risk of downtime during technical migrations and other day-to-day operations, but unforeseen incidents that cause unexpected outages are impossible to eliminate entirely.
Cloud Computing, Financial Technology, Reliability, Software Engineering, Business Continuity
64 points by abritishguy 98 days ago | 41 comments
What Is the Byzantine Generals Problem in Distributed Systems? (scalablethread.com)
The Byzantine Generals Problem is a thought experiment in distributed computing to understand the challenges of reaching a consensus when some nodes may be untrustworthy or unreliable (node behavior). It shows how difficult it can be to coordinate actions when some system members may act dishonestly.
Distributed Systems, Consensus, Reliability, Computer Science
20 points by thunderbong 110 days ago | 3 comments
Every System is a Log: Avoiding coordination in distributed applications (restate.dev)
Building resilient distributed applications remains a tough challenge.
Distributed Systems, Software Engineering, Reliability, Coordination, Logging
229 points by sewen 119 days ago | 155 comments
Engineering "home-cooked" software (ownerofhappy.org)
Can you believe the pyramids have had 100% up-time with no human maintenance? If the pyramids can do it, why can't your notes app?
Software Engineering, Reliability, User Experience
54 points by kookiburra 129 days ago | 31 comments
Ente Photo Storage – Reliability and Replication Architecture (ente.io)
The sibling of security is reliability.
Storage, Architecture, Reliability, Data Centers
4 points by nathan_phoenix 159 days ago | 0 comments
How to build 99.999% uptime payment systems (alvaroduran.com)
In May next year, I’ll be in WebExpo, in Prague, to give a talk on how to build payment systems, and I’d love for you to be there. You can find all the info here.
Payment Systems, Reliability, WebExpo
18 points by ohduran 177 days ago | 12 comments
Trends in Cars that Could be Affecting Toyota's Legendary Reliability (topspeed.com)
Cars, Toyota, Reliability, Trends
13 points by prmph 195 days ago | 11 comments
One in 20 new Wikipedia pages seem to be written with the help of AI (newscientist.com)
Nearly 5 per cent of new Wikipedia pages that are published in English seem to contain text generated by artificial intelligence, which could reduce the site’s reliability.
Artificial Intelligence, Wikipedia, Reliability, Language Models
24 points by Brajeshwar 201 days ago | 13 comments
You're Overcomplicating Production (bearblog.dev)
You're going to have outages in production. They're inevitable. The question is how to best minimize outages, both their frequency and duration.
Software Development, Production Environments, Reliability
9 points by hellcow 217 days ago | 2 comments
A protocol for reliable notifications over a 1 bit fallible connection (paper.wf)
imagine you have two devices, a client and a server, connected in a peculiar way:
Networking, Communication Protocols, Reliability, Error Correction
73 points by todsacerdoti 220 days ago | 10 comments
Practices of Reliable Software Design (entropicthoughts.com)
I was nerd-sniped. Out of the blue, a friend asked me,
Software Engineering, Design, Reliability
231 points by fagnerbrack 226 days ago | 52 comments
Why is F# code robust and reliable? (microsoft.com)
In Access Softek, we’ve been developing software for financial institutions using C# and .NET for two decades, at the same time suffering from lots of bugs.
Programming Languages, .NET, Software Development, Reliability
101 points by b-man 241 days ago | 85 comments
Yes, you can have exactly-once delivery (rongarret.info)
Distributed Systems, Messaging, Reliability
54 points by lisper 245 days ago | 133 comments
Ask HN: What are your use cases for o1 so far? (ycombinator.com)
Feel like there aren't a lot of use cases where o1 radically changes the reliability issue of LLMs in a way that could make human in the loop approaches less necessary.
Artificial Intelligence, Human-Computer Interaction, Reliability
8 points by fsndz 245 days ago | 4 comments
The "R" in MTTR: Repair or Recover? What's the Difference? (causely.io)
There are so many ways to measure application reliability today, with hundreds of key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure availability, error rates, user experiences, and quality of service (QoS). Yet every organization I speak with struggles to effectively use these metrics.
Software Engineering, Reliability, Performance Metrics, DevOps
6 points by karinakarina3 246 days ago | 1 comments
Show HN: Harp Proxy – open-source API Proxy for reliability and observability (harp-proxy.net)
HARP Proxy is an open-source HTTP proxy for your remote APIs, running alongside your applications.
Open Source, API, Reliability, Observability
10 points by rdorgueil 248 days ago | 3 comments
Why is F# code so robust and reliable? (microsoft.com)
In Access Softek, we’ve been developing software for financial institutions using C# and .NET for two decades, at the same time suffering from lots of bugs.
Programming Languages, Software Development, Reliability, .NET
11 points by mikece 255 days ago | 2 comments
Lexus and Toyota are the most reliable used-car brands, Tesla third from bottom (cbsnews.com)
Used Cars, Reliability, Tesla, Toyota, Lexus
11 points by teleforce 268 days ago | 0 comments