Hacker News: animesh371g

XFaaS: Meta's Scalable and Cost-Efficient Serverless Platform

animesh371g — Mon, 27 May 2024 06:01:16 +0000

Article URL: https://engineeringatscale.substack.com/p/xfaaas-meta-cost-effective-serverless

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40488017

Points: 2

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animesh371g — Tue, 21 May 2024 06:15:23 +0000

1) In-memory execution engine - It uses Redis as the core execution engine and decouples it from the durability layer.

2) Transaction log - It forms the backbone of the durability layer. It handles data replication, leader election, and data recovery.

3) Off-box recovery - It offloads recovery of failed nodes to ephemeral clusters and S3 for performance improvements.

Uber CacheFront – 40M requests per second

animesh371g — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 07:29:17 +0000

Article URL: https://engineeringatscale.substack.com/p/system-design-of-ubers-cachefront

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39587908

Points: 4

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New comment by animesh371g in "How QUIC is displacing TCP for speed"

animesh371g — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 10:53:49 +0000

The adoption would be gradual and few years down the line, it would be QUIC. The same was true for HTTP/1 and HTTP/2.

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animesh371g — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 10:31:05 +0000

There is no Level 8 as such. Everything happens at the application level i.e Level 7.

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animesh371g — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 10:28:16 +0000

Best opportunity to contribute to a new NPM package for QUIC/HTTP3

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animesh371g — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 10:25:44 +0000

Yes, that is what QUIC has done.

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animesh371g — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 10:25:25 +0000

QUIC doesn't have a handshake which is another reason for it being fast

Vector Databases: Databases for the AI Era

animesh371g — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 08:09:49 +0000

Article URL: https://engineeringatscale.substack.com/p/vector-databases-databases-for-the

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39312585

Points: 3

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Mastering System Design Interviews: 5 Key Tips for Success

animesh371g — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 18:18:47 +0000

Article URL: https://engineeringatscale.substack.com/p/mastering-system-design-interviews

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39305487

Points: 1

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How QUIC is displacing TCP for speed

animesh371g — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 11:02:18 +0000

Article URL: https://engineeringatscale.substack.com/p/how-quic-is-displacing-tcp-for-speed

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39300573

Points: 149

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Eight Fallacies of Distributed Computing

animesh371g — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 15:29:24 +0000

Article URL: https://engineeringatscale.substack.com/p/the-eight-fallacies-of-distributed-computing

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39289703

Points: 1

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Dive Deep into Database Sharding Strategies

animesh371g — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 05:14:55 +0000

Article URL: https://engineeringatscale.substack.com/p/system-design-concepts-dive-deep

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39284775

Points: 2

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Discord solved the hot partition problem

animesh371g — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 05:25:20 +0000

Article URL: https://engineeringatscale.substack.com/p/how-discord-solved-hot-partition-problem

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39271080

Points: 1

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Towards modern development of cloud applications

animesh371g — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 16:01:16 +0000

Article URL: https://engineeringatscale.substack.com/p/towards-modern-development-of-cloud

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39262564

Points: 1

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Towards modern development of cloud applications

animesh371g — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 13:34:41 +0000

Article URL: https://engineeringatscale.substack.com/p/towards-modern-development-of-cloud

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39203574

Points: 1

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Towards modern development of cloud applications

animesh371g — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 16:41:54 +0000

Article URL: https://engineeringatscale.substack.com/p/towards-modern-development-of-cloud

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39167355

Points: 1

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Towards modern development of cloud applications

animesh371g — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 10:05:35 +0000

Article URL: https://engineeringatscale.substack.com/p/towards-modern-development-of-cloud

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39154223

Points: 2

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System Design Fundamentals: What Is a Load Balancer?

animesh371g — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 16:52:29 +0000

Article URL: https://engineeringatscale.substack.com/p/what-is-a-load-balancer

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39144780

Points: 1

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New comment by animesh371g in "Towards modern development of cloud applications"

animesh371g — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 13:03:25 +0000

The paper discusses the fundamental problem with microservices architecture. It solves the fundamental problem by proposing a technique to develop monoliths with logical boundaries.