Hacker News with Generative AI: Reliability

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

76 points by fanf2 2 days ago | 68 comments

12 years of Backblaze data center storage drives, visualized (benjdd.com)
1 small node -> 100 drives

Data Storage, Visualization, Hardware, Reliability

104 points by bddicken 3 days ago | 40 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 5 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 8 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 19 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 28 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 38 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 68 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 86 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 104 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 110 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 126 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 130 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 136 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 151 days ago | 85 comments

Yes, you can have exactly-once delivery (rongarret.info)

Distributed Systems, Messaging, Reliability

54 points by lisper 155 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 155 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 155 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 157 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 165 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 177 days ago | 0 comments

Analysis of EV charging stations finds reliability issues galore (emergingtechbrew.com)

Electric Vehicles, Infrastructure, Reliability, Technology

41 points by speckx 188 days ago | 57 comments

SREBench Competition (sreben.ch)

Software, Competitions, Reliability

75 points by jtsaw 190 days ago | 25 comments

A tale of using chaos engineering at scale to keep our systems resilient (tines.com)