Systems Design & Architecture

Carefully choreographed shutdown gives probe's three remaining instruments more time

Project which included new SAP system saw delays and costs rise from an £800m estimate while causing financial disruptions

Big Iron remains big business for Big Blue

The Steam Machine is here, with a base price of $1,049. Yes, that's nearly twice the price of a PS5, but what you're buying here isn't a console but a full-on P

From academic toss-aside to cloud substrate

Unveiled at CES, the 14th-gen Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Aura Edition features a redesigned double-sided motherboard and modular components.

Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability. 680 comments, 1276 points on Hacker News.

Graph database biz says on-prem, air-gapped intel stack gives governments a no-kill-switch option

The Pentagon is buying defence hardware faster than it can make any of it talk to each other. Sensors, autonomous platforms, edge compute, electronic-warfare pa

Zorin OS is one of the most popular Linux distributions. One reason is its flexibility, which makes it easy to customize the desktop's look and feel.

72 Boxer-mounted RCH 155s due from 2028 as Britain fills the gap left by AS-90s sent to Ukraine

It's amazing what happens when you plug everything in

It's amazing what happens when you plug everything in

It's amazing what happens when you plug everything in

Tests scheduled for May can’t come soon enough after VGER 1 power glitch led to instrument shutdown NASA has revealed it’s working on a plan called “The Big Ban

Contract kicks off design work, but SMRs unlikely to generate power before the mid-2030s The British government has signed a deal with Rolls‑Royce to carry out

Microservices and the First Law of Distributed Objects (2014). 37 comments, 51 points on Hacker News.

I’ve written a deep dive into Software Design focusing on the "gray area" between High-Level Design (system architecture) and Low-Level Design (classe

Hey HN! I'm Rodrigo, I run distributed systems across a few countries. I built Openfuse because of something that kept bugging me about how we all do circu

Microservices for the Benefits, Not the Hustle (2023). 58 comments, 27 points on Hacker News.

Avoiding fan traps in database design and system diagrams. 4 comments, 34 points on Hacker News.

Microservices Killed Our Startup. Monoliths Would've Saved Us. 54 comments, 51 points on Hacker News.

Reflections and rantings from a system design interviewer. 4 comments, 14 points on Hacker News.

Why Twilio Segment moved from microservices back to a monolith. 252 comments, 281 points on Hacker News.

Microservices should form a polytree. 119 comments, 142 points on Hacker News.

You want microservices, but do you need them?. 144 comments, 150 points on Hacker News.

Modular monolith and microservices: Modularity is what matters. 151 comments, 148 points on Hacker News.

Event Sourcing, CQRS and Micro Services: Real FinTech Example. 68 comments, 85 points on Hacker News.

Why I Chose Elixir Phoenix over Rails, Laravel, and Next.js. 260 comments, 272 points on Hacker News.

I've been an active reader of Hacker News for a while and am interested in joining the more focused discussions on Lobste.rs, particularly around programmi

Basics of Equality Saturation. 2 comments, 17 points on Hacker News.

Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) is reshaping microservice placement. 34 comments, 98 points on Hacker News.

Good system design. 390 comments, 957 points on Hacker News.

Elements of System Design. 37 comments, 159 points on Hacker News.

I've been working on nodes.bio - an interactive tool for visualizing biological networks and systems thinking. The tool features interactive network visual

Hacking Coroutines into C. 42 comments, 160 points on Hacker News.

Most mechanical CAD tools (SolidWorks, Fusion, FreeCAD) still lock all modeling into opaque binary files. That makes it hard to track changes, collaborate with

LeetCode for System Design. 55 comments, 77 points on Hacker News.

Microservices are a tax your startup probably can't afford. 263 comments, 310 points on Hacker News.

System Design of a Cellular APL Computer. 16 comments, 38 points on Hacker News.

You should know this before choosing Next.js. 137 comments, 284 points on Hacker News.

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. This wa

Arcan as Operating System Design (2021). 3 comments, 30 points on Hacker News.

Eventual Consistency Is Tricky. 7 comments, 11 points on Hacker News.

We switched from Next.js to Astro (and why it might interest you). 160 comments, 167 points on Hacker News.

Why microservices might be finished as monoliths return with a vengeance. 32 comments, 47 points on Hacker News.

Engineers do not get to make startup mistakes when they build ledgers. 551 comments, 590 points on Hacker News.

I can't stand these codebases anymore. So much of cruft and so many new codebases are all AI generated. Anyone else having a hard time with these?