Systems Design & Architecture

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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?

Microservices Are Technical Debt. 14 comments, 27 points on Hacker News.

White Papers to Learn System Design and Software Architecture. 0 comments, 18 points on Hacker News.

Devs need system design tools, not diagramming tools. 99 comments, 215 points on Hacker News.

In the late 2000s and early 2010s, I remember seeing lots of hype around building distributed systems using message queues (e.g. Amazon SQS, RabbitMQ, ZeroMQ, e

Don't microservice, do module. 159 comments, 138 points on Hacker News.

Hi HN, I’ve been in the industry for some time and unfortunately the reality is because I haven’t worked for companies with millions/billions of active use

Ten Years and Counting: My Affair with Microservices. 51 comments, 94 points on Hacker News.

Hi HN, we’re building Floro ( https://floro.io ), an open-source, offline-first visual version control system that allows you to merge and diff graphi

Sixty Four is a beautiful system design toy that reveals something rather dark. 18 comments, 44 points on Hacker News.

It's not microservice or monolith; it's cognitive load. 192 comments, 218 points on Hacker News.

The title might sound dumb, but the real goal is to learn more and eventually get better at simple system designs like in the terrific posts below: https:/

Nuclear Reactor Simulator. 125 comments, 481 points on Hacker News.

There have been multiple discussions of how the microservices movement did more harm than good, how a modular monolith can be a much better option. I wish there

Microservices – State of Developer Ecosystem 2022 (JetBrains). 45 comments, 69 points on Hacker News.

Microservices aren't the problem. Incompetent people are. 72 comments, 42 points on Hacker News.

Leaders Are Tool Builders: Why I Wrote My Own JavaScript UI Framework. 21 comments, 14 points on Hacker News.

The costs of microservices (2020). 396 comments, 426 points on Hacker News.

Why I'm using Next.js. 80 comments, 27 points on Hacker News.

Web components will outlive JavaScript frameworks. 244 comments, 310 points on Hacker News.

System Design 101. 43 comments, 250 points on Hacker News.

Microservices Without Reason. 0 comments, 20 points on Hacker News.