Hacker News with Generative AI: System Design

Ask HN: How to study for system design that doesn't include front end/back end? (ycombinator.com)
I got a system design interview where I was asked to build a pricer for a financial product, then expand it to multiple pricers that might share inputs.

System Design, Interviews, Software Engineering

38 points by 3a2d29 20 days ago | 24 comments

System Design, Software Engineering, Interviews, Job Hunting

6 points by seestraw 24 days ago | 1 comments

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

785 points by cyndunlop 42 days ago | 304 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 145 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 200 days ago | 1 comments

System Design, Software Engineering, Scalability

7 points by thunderbong 238 days ago | 0 comments

Optimization, System Design, Software Engineering, Quality Management

40 points by max_ 238 days ago | 34 comments

Software Architecture, System Design, Learning Resources

18 points by onteri 247 days ago | 0 comments