Limitless System Design – May

Limitless System Design

1000 Models Journey, 500x Scalability and zero downtime k8s migration


🐳 Migrating Large-Scale Compute Workloads to Kubernetes Without Disruption

What happened – Uber moved thousands of interactive ML and batch jobs from Peloton to Kubernetes clusters with zero customer downtime.

Why it matters – Shows a phased, controller-based migration path for stateful compute that unlocks ecosystem tooling and capacity isolation at hyperscale.

🌐 Bringing Connections into View: Real-Time BGP Route Visibility on Cloudflare Radar

What happened – Cloudflare Radar now streams live BGP updates, rendering Sankey diagrams of every prefix’s current AS-path worldwide.

Why it matters – Gives operators instant insight into leaks, hijacks and outages without waiting for historical dumps or running their own collectors.

🚕 Real-Time Spatial Temporal Forecasting @ Lyft

What happened – Lyft built a pipeline forecasting marketplace supply, demand and ETAs every minute for 4 million geohashes using streaming features.

Why it matters – Demonstrates low-latency, fine-grained predictions via hierarchical models and distributed inference, improving pricing and driver dispatch accuracy city-wide.

💰 Implement Event-Driven Invoice Processing for Resilient Financial Monitoring at Scale

What happened – AWS reference architecture ingests 86 million daily invoice events with EventBridge, Lambda and DynamoDB, providing cross-Region replay and stuck-event alerts.

Why it matters – Blueprint lets finance teams gain near-real-time visibility and fault isolation without managing servers or batch reconciliations.

🎥 Behind the Scenes: Building a Robust Ads Event Processing Pipeline

What happened – Netflix designed a Kafka-Flink pipeline handling billions of ad impressions daily with exactly-once guarantees and minute-level campaign feedback.

Why it matters – Offers recipe for low-latency, lossless ad analytics that scales horizontally while keeping costs predictable.

🤖 Journey to 1000 Models: Scaling Instagram’s Recommendation System

What happened – Instagram expanded its ranking stack to orchestrate 1,000 specialized models per request without exceeding existing latency budgets.

Why it matters – Shows sharded model graphs, dynamic gating and GPU inference clusters can unlock personalization depth without compromising experience.

🧪 500× Scalability of Experiment Metric Computing with Unified Dynamic Framework

What happened – Pinterest built a Spark-based framework that computes thousands of experiment metrics in minutes, scaling 500× versus prior Hadoop flows.

Why it matters – Frees engineers to launch more A/B tests and iterate faster while slashing compute cost and pipeline overhead.

🔑 How Agoda Solved Authorization at Scale with OPA

What happened – Agoda centralized policy enforcement via Open Policy Agent sidecars and plugins, serving millions of checks per second across microservices.

Why it matters – Provides playbook for adopting policy-as-code with audit trails and negligible latency, easing compliance and developer onboarding.


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