System Design Survival Guide: The Dream of "Boring" vs Ugly Reality 🚀

Mixing Sean Goedecke’s take with the full-contact roast the Hacker News wizards gave it (957 points, 390 comments), you start to see that being a software engineer means trying to please everyone at once. Here’s a savage-but-affectionate recap of the internet’s opinions on system design — full credit to Sean for the original ideas, the roasting is all Hacker News, and the part at the end where I get petty is entirely my own doing.