Hacker News with Generative AI: System Design

When imperfect systems are good: Bluesky's lossy timelines (jazco.dev)
Often when designing systems, we aim for perfection in things like consistency of data, availability, latency, and more.

System Design, Software Engineering, Social Media

764 points by cyndunlop 2 days ago | 300 comments

We built a self-healing system to survive a concurrency bug at Netflix (pushtoprod.substack.com)
Our CPUs were dying, the bug was temporarily un-fixable, and we had no viable path forward. Here's how we managed to survive.

Software Engineering, Netflix, System Design, Concurrency, Debugging

344 points by zdw 105 days ago | 165 comments

Napkin-math: Techniques for estimating system performance from first-principles (github.com/sirupsen)
The goal of this project is to collect software, numbers, and techniques to quickly estimate the expected performance of systems from first-principles.

Software, Performance Optimization, System Design, Estimation Techniques

41 points by alexzeitler 159 days ago | 1 comments

System Design, Software Engineering, Scalability

7 points by thunderbong 198 days ago | 0 comments

Optimization, System Design, Software Engineering, Quality Management

40 points by max_ 198 days ago | 34 comments

Software Architecture, System Design, Learning Resources

18 points by onteri 207 days ago | 0 comments