Roberto Vitillo

robertovitillo.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2016

Roberto Vitillo, a software engineer, writes about distributed systems, databases, latency, TCP, and data pipelines.

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Most-shared posts

  1. 1
    Don't trust default timeouts
    3 people · 146 points · first shared 2020 · 115 comments on HN
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    Back of the envelope estimation hacks
    2 people · 243 points · first shared 2020 · 77 comments on HN
  4. 4
    Differential Privacy for Dummies (2016)
    2 people · 118 points · first shared 2016 · 21 comments on HN
  5. 5
    An Overview of Mozilla’s Data Pipeline
    2 people · 5 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
  6. 6
    Why you should measure tail latencies
    2 people · 3 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
  7. 7
    What developers should know about TCP
    1 people · 359 points · first shared 2020 · 154 comments on HN
  8. 8
    The costs of microservices (2020)
    1 people · 93 points · first shared 2023 · 47 comments on HN
  9. 9
    How Distributed Systems Fail
    1 people · 6 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
  10. 10
    What every developer should know about consistency
    1 people · 3 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
  11. 11
    Leader Election Best Practices
    1 people · 3 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
  12. 12
    Scalability Patterns of Distributed Systems
    1 people · 2 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
  13. 13
    How to Conduct a System Design Interview
    1 people · 2 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
  14. 14
    Bandwidth and latency are not independent
    1 people · 1 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
  15. 15
    On technical leadership
    1 people · 1 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN

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