I thought this was really useful in getting a quick overview of a variety of systems in the real world, even though the book itself is designed to answer interview questions. https://www.amazon.com/System-Design-Interview-Insiders-Guid...
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#52The book "System Design Interview" by Alex Su and Sahn Lam is a good place to get digestible examples. It walks you through step-by-step how you might solve various systems problems, introducing the pieces you need. Each problem fits your 20-60 min request perfectly.
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#53Discord did a blog post a while back about their architecture https://discord.com/blog/how-discord-handles-two-and-half-mi...
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#54You can get a good view on some architectures from AOSA, thought it may not be as focused on web as you're looking for: http://aosabook.org/en/index.html A good example is Scalable Web Architecture and Distributed Systems by Kate Matsudaira: http://aosabook.org/en/distsys.html
On topic of architecture of open source applications, Wikimedia shares this:
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#55A popular choice in the real world is known as 'the big ball of mud', e.g. as described at http://www.laputan.org/mud/ .
It isn't really a choice, it is just what happens due to incentives and changing needs and leaders and politics and technologies inside the company.
People assume that software architecture is like building architecture, in some ways it is, but NO ONE has ever showed up to a construction site that was half way done and said "Hey guys the steel framing we ordered has been delayed so please continue building the rest of the building by replacing anything that was original designed for steel beams with bamboo.
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#56BuiltWith - doesn’t give you a whole picture, but it does share a lot of information.
Re: Ask HN: Where can I see many examples of real companies' software architecture?
#57You can get a good view on some architectures from AOSA, thought it may not be as focused on web as you're looking for: http://aosabook.org/en/index.html A good example is Scalable Web Architecture and Distributed Systems by Kate Matsudaira: http://aosabook.org/en/distsys.html
On topic of architecture of open source applications, Wikimedia shares this: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_servers
Very cool!
At what level of scale might one expect to need what's going on in the "Edge Cluster", as opposed letting all the requests fly right into the app servers?
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#58Twitch recently open-sourced all their software.
You forgot to add unwillingly, but otherwise correct
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#59Enterprise Fizz Buzz: https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris...
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#60I'm a big fan of Sean Parent from Adobe, he has a lot of good material on YT; somewhat C++ specific though.