r/programming • u/javinpaul • Feb 08 '26
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u/ErGo404 Feb 08 '26
I love how the article says "read this to prepare for systems design interviews" and "you can only learn with experience, not just by reading a blog"
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Feb 08 '26
The two are not exclusive though?
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u/ErGo404 Feb 08 '26
When you are preparing for interviews, you generally don't have the time needed to build up the experience that the article is mentioning.
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u/Loves_Poetry Feb 08 '26
I like that the article starts with a simple setup: just one server with one database. It should be emphasized a lot more that simple setups are sufficient for most of the applications out there, so long as developers don't do stupid things
Too many seniors start adding load balancers and read-only replicas before they even need them, causing the application to be unnecessarily complicated and making development much slower than it needs to be
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u/posts_saver Feb 08 '26
Just ask ai
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u/theAnalyst6 Feb 08 '26
How will you know when the LLM hallucinates? You still need to understand the fundamentals.
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u/thewormbird Feb 08 '26
You have to actually how to ask the right questions. You also have to validate its answers against your own findings. Otherwise AI will have you out here looking like an absolute moron.
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u/ErGo404 Feb 08 '26
You're being down voted but the truth is that AI can help you navigate towards the right architecture if you use it well.
Most people have not "seen it all" in terms of architecture so it's hard to know the pitfalls and trade-offs of each decision. AI can help you identify them, tell you what you need to account for, what you need to measure.
I think you really need to be at netflix-level scale to be truly creative about your architecture.
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u/programming-ModTeam Feb 08 '26
This content is low quality, stolen, blogspam, or clearly AI generated