Hacker News with Generative AI: Systems Design

Systems Ideas That Sound Good but Almost Never Work – "Let's Just " (learningbyshipping.com)
Some engineering patterns that sound good but almost never work as intended
Engineering, Software Development, Systems Design
10 points by jnord 19 days ago | 6 comments
A Liveness Example in TLA+ (surfingcomplexity.blog)
If you’ve ever sat at a stop light that was just stuck on red, where there was clearly a problem with the light where it wasn’t ever switching green, you’ve encountered a liveness problem with a system.
TLA+, Software Engineering, Systems Design
78 points by skeptrune 93 days ago | 11 comments
Build systems, not heroes (vitonsky.net)
Enterprise programming is the management of system complexity. The main goals of most enterprise projects are to minimize bugs, ensure scalability, and release as soon as possible. These goals are unreachable in projects where people rely on individual skills rather than on a system-based approach.
Software Engineering, Systems Design, Enterprise Architecture
61 points by thunderbong 98 days ago | 57 comments
Systems Design for Advanced Beginners (robertheaton.com)
You’ve started yet another company with your good friend, Steve Steveington. It’s an online marketplace where people can buy and sell things and where no one asks too many questions. It’s basically a rip-off of Craigslist, but with Steve’s name instead of Craig’s.
Systems Design, Entrepreneurship, Software Development
8 points by salomonk_mur 102 days ago | 1 comments
Ask HN: AOSA books as "systems design" reference? (ycombinator.com)
Software Engineering, Books, Systems Design
7 points by dakiol 140 days ago | 0 comments