"the platform will continue to innovate, not just in content, but in the engineering brilliance behind the scenes.
The TikTok system design is more than an architecture; it’s a competitive advantage, a blueprint for high-engagement social ecosystems, and a benchmark for future real-time digital platforms."
This whole article seems to be LLM generated. The website is filled with "why it matters", bullet lists and AI generated images. Cherry on top, the author is indian.
> Have you thought about moving into a house with no neighbors? Otherwise, have some respect for others IMO
What about the smoker having respect to the person he forces to smoke? (you can't be quick enough to close your window, the smoke has already invaded your home once you smelled it). Your rights end where my rights start. You have no right to invade my personal space with your toxic smoke
Typically it's written in the lease or apartment policies if you can/can't smoke on your balcony/porch/apartment parking lot etc. People who smoke usually look for smoke friendly places because having to get dressed, go outside, off the property, and then across the street every time you want a cigarette is miserable especially at night or in bad weather.
If the guy has to go to these passive aggressive lengths instead of going straight to the apartment management with a complaint more likely than not the smoker is allowed to smoke on his balcony.
Causing a noise disturbance and potentially impacting several neighbors at once because he doesn't like one particular neighbor doing something he signed a legal document agreeing to when he moved there is kind of silly. It's like becoming a member at a cigar lounge and then complaining when the guy in the chair next to you lights one up.
Being protected by law doesn't mean you are not harmful to others. I was just responding to that one reddit comment, he might have the right to do so, nonetheless it's very self centered
I found several that were contradicting the claim they were supposed to support (in popular articles). I will never regain faith in wikipedia. Being an editor or just verifying information from wikipedia makes you hate it
Ask an LLM to write such an article and you'll have exactly this.
- random bold emphasis that would make disney and marvell comics blush
- overuse of "one paragraph then bullet points"
- a lot of the bullet lists has a small bold prefix then one line for no good reason
- every section has a "why it matters"
- and then each section with an useless comparison table that are direct screenshots of ChatGPT/Gemini
I would not mind if the author indeed used his alleged insights in the domain, but as other have noted, numbers are way off, and are what CSPs want you to believe to sell more instances in Kubernetes. This does not inspires "I proofread the LLM output".
It's a shame because the article has some good advices, but also a lot of misled ideas that would make Grug scratch their head. No, you don't need Redis to have stateless applications. Having a load-balancing tier is as useful for resiliency than it is for scaling. Autoscaling is a trap. If you can afford it, start with the app and DB separated. Let your application perform connection pooling itself from day one, your framework knows more than PgBouncer how connections can be safely reused.
Overall, at a high level, the article is good and is a good outline on the order in which to optimize (sharding is dead last), but the details don't meet expectations.
You are not. The entire post is LLM slop. I am as baffled as you are how something like this could be on the front page of HN.
The senseless bolding of random words in the text, numbers that are way off and don't make any sense are the clues that the post is LLM generated and the blogger didn't even bother to proofread it.
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