All the numbers: Amazon Prime Day 2026 powered by AWS(aws.amazon.com)
33 points by acronpolis | 25 comments
AWS News Blog post presenting usage statistics for AWS services that powered Amazon Prime Day 2026.
#scalability on Hacker News
12 stories tagged scalability, newest first.
A Million Agents Is a Distributed System Problem(instacloud.com)
24 points by tonychang430 | 5 comments
A blog post from Instacloud arguing that running a million AI agents at scale is fundamentally a distributed systems problem.
Git at any scale(cursor.com)
331 points by meetpateltech | 104 comments
Cursor research blog post by Vicent Martí about scaling Git to handle very large repositories.
Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY actually scales(dbos.dev)
351 points by KraftyOne | 68 comments
A DBOS blog post by Peter Kraft arguing that Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY can scale, contrary to common belief.
Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability(lore.org)
1202 points by regnerba | 638 comments
Landing page for Lore, an open source version control system designed for scalability, with a getting started section.
Why is everything so scalable?(stavros.io)
360 points by kunley | 330 comments
Blog post by Stavros arguing that most companies over-engineer their systems with FAANG-style scalable architectures like microservices and cloud datastores they don't need.
How AWS S3 serves 1 petabyte per second on top of slow HDDs(bigdata.2minutestreaming.com)
338 points by todsacerdoti | 147 comments
A Big Data Stream newsletter article explaining how AWS S3 achieves 1 PB/s throughput and 150M QPS using commodity hard drives.
SQLite-on-the-server is misunderstood: Better at hyper-scale than micro-scale(rivet.gg)
332 points by PaulHoule | 151 comments
A Rivet blog post by CTO Nathan Flurry arguing that SQLite-on-the-server suits hyper-scale sharded databases better than small-scale apps.
When imperfect systems are good: Bluesky's lossy timelines(jazco.dev)
751 points by cyndunlop | 293 comments
Blog post explaining how Bluesky uses intentionally lossy timeline fanout to trade perfect consistency for lower latency and better scalability.
Care Doesn't Scale(stevenscrawls.com)
389 points by surprisetalk | 315 comments
Personal essay arguing that individualized care, illustrated by social workers raising four orphaned children one-to-one, cannot be scaled efficiently.
Elixir Saves Pinterest $2M a Year in Server Costs(paraxial.io)
321 points by lemper | 317 comments
Paraxial.io blog post by Michael Lubas describing how Pinterest's adoption of Elixir saved about $2 million a year in server costs.
We reduced the cost of building Mastodon at Twitter-scale by 100x(blog.redplanetlabs.com)
856 points by tekacs | 317 comments
Red Planet Labs blog post by Nathan Marz describing how they built a Twitter-scale Mastodon implementation at 100x lower cost using their Rama platform.