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Matthew Hawthorne
Personal blog · pushtoprod.substack.com · on HN as mhawthornesystemsprogrammingai
Matthew Hawthorne writes Push to Prod, a personal blog at pushtoprod.substack.com about systems, programming and ai. Since 2024, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “We built a self-healing system to survive a concurrency bug at Netflix”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-18, and you can follow it by feed.
Battle-tested insights from building critical systems at Netflix, Twitter, and Comcast - edge routing, personalization infrastructure, and analytics serving millions in production.
Most-linked posts?
- We built a self-healing system to survive a concurrency bug at Netflix2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-09-03
What Hacker News says?
Submitted We built a self-healing system to survive a concurrency bug at Netflix as a story · 345 points
HN discussionSubmitted Netflix Built a Self-Healing System to Survive a Terrifying Concurrency Bug as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Queueing Requests Queues Your Capacity Problems, Too as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Productivity Ceiling of AI Coding Tools as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Please, Stop Talking About "Tradeoffs" as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Best Questions and Answers to the "Terrifying Netflix Concurrency Bug" Post as a story · 1 points
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