"When Imperfect Systems are Good, Actually: #Bluesky Lossy Timelines"
https://jazco.dev/2025/02/19/imperfection/
"I recently made some major tradeoffs in the design of Bluesky’s Following Feed/Timeline to improve the performance of writes at the cost of consistency in a way that doesn’t negatively affect users but reduced P99s by over 96%."
#webdev #programming
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