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February 24, 2025

When Imperfect Systems are Good, Actually: Bluesky's Lossy Timelines

Monday, February 24, 2025 Teklinks

Often when designing systems, we aim for perfection in things like consistency of data, availability, latency, and more. The hardest part of system design is that it’s difficult (if not impossible) to design systems that have perfect consistency, perfect availability, incredibly low latency, and incredibly high throughput, all at the same time.

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