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Roblox
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Roblox is the company blog at blog.roblox.com, writing about programming and games. Since 2013, 43 different Hacker News readers have linked it 47 times, most often “Roblox October Outage Postmortem”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (25) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Roblox's engineering blog mainly for its October 2021 outage post-mortem, which commenters cite as a well-handled write-up. Other linked posts cover ML serving, Metal graphics and facial animation.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 25 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- Roblox October Outage Postmortem12 people · 12 mentions · first linked 2022-01-20
- Real Time Facial Animation for Avatars3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-03-23
- We Scaled Bert to Serve 1B Daily Requests on CPUs2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-03-18
- Semantic Subtyping in Luau2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-11-30
- /2021/10/update-on-our-outage/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-11-01
- An Update on Our Outage2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-11-01
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-10-03
- Three years of Metal2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-10-08
What Hacker News says?
For non-public usages, I remember Boltdb being named as one of the root causes that took down Roblox for three days! https://blog.roblox.com/2022/01/roblox-return-to-service-10-...
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on “I'm all-in on server-side SQLite”Submitted Roblox October Outage Postmortem as a story · 687 points
HN discussionWhat a great link, thanks for sharing. >"Dead tired people are more likely to make brain dead decisions" Indeed. In reading the post-mortem on the recent multi-day Roblox outage, it's hard not to imagine some bad decisions were made that only made problems worse and that likely these were on account of people just being fried by lack of sleep: https://blog.roblox.com/2022/01/roblox-return-to-service-10-...
Comment linking /2022/01/roblox-return-to-service-10-28-10-31-2021/
on “Hackers claim to have breached Okta systems”Submitted An Update on Our Outage as a story · 358 points
HN discussionDoes anyone know what tool this one is? https://blog.roblox.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/3-perf-re... Is it really perf?
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on “Roblox October Outage Postmortem”Submitted Introducing Age Verification as a story · 125 points
HN discussionIs there any tutorial on how go get a pref report like the one show in this screenshot? https://blog.roblox.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/3-perf-re...
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on “Roblox October Outage Postmortem”Submitted Three years of Metal as a story · 76 points
HN discussionYou can read the blog post via the... RSS feed! https://blog.roblox.com/feed/
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on “An Update on Our Outage”Submitted Real Time Facial Animation for Avatars as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThere's a redirect loop between https://blog.roblox.com/2021/10/update-recent-service-outage... and https://blog.roblox.com/2021/10/update-on-our-outage/ I'm unable to open the link and seems Wayback Machine cannot archive it either.
Comment linking /2021/10/update-on-our-outage/
on “An Update on Our Outage”Submitted Breaking Down Language Barriers with a Multilingual Translation Model as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSame, I can open https://blog.roblox.com/2021/10/ and other linked blog posts, but not this specific one.
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on “An Update on Our Outage”Submitted The Future of How We Work Together at Roblox as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://blog.roblox.com/2008/02/the-future-of-open-source/ > I learned to program when I was 7. I started with LOGOWriter and QBASIC. What did I make? Games. It should be obvious. All kids want to write games. If your kid wants to write insurance software at age 7, you should stop wandering around aimlessly on the internet and find a good psychiatrist. Do it. Do it now. > At its heart, ROBLOX is a game development p…
Comment linking /2008/02/the-future-of-open-source/
on “Roblox S-1”Submitted Roblox Available on Playstation, Meta Quest as a story · 2 points
HN discussionROBLOX | Senior/Principal Software Engineers | San Francisco Bay Area | Onsite Preferred | Full Time | http://www.roblox.com The Studio Collaboration team at ROBLOX is looking for Engineers! We’re developing new ways to collaborate on art, assets, and code. We regularly release new versions and new tools to our pool of millions of active creators and directly iterate based on feedback from them. We have opportunitie…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2022)”Submitted Roblox to present 3D motion and rendering research at Sighraph 2023 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://blog.roblox.com/2022/03/real-time-facial-animation-a...
Comment linking /2022/03/real-time-facial-animation-avatars/
on “MegaPortraits: One-Shot Megapixel Neural Head Avatars”Submitted Generative AI on Roblox: Our Vision for the Future of Creation as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe person mentioning secret store, and the blog post they put up does seem to somewhat point to Vault, but no name drop. > A core system in our infrastructure became overwhelmed, prompted by a subtle bug in our backend service communications while under heavy load. This was not due to any peak in external traffic or any particular experience. Rather the failure was caused by the growth in the number of servers in o…
Comment linking /2021/10/update-on-our-outage/
on “Roblox has been down for days and it’s not because of Chipotle”Submitted Semantic Subtyping in Luau as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWhatsApp stored no data and ran everything as through service, that's why they did it with so few engineers. Almost no games ever reach scale close to what you just wrote. The few that do are known with large technical teams. Same goes to everything else. The reason why you can name them almost all is because it's so rare. You are grossly overblowing the numbers. Only a very few services ever get to these numbers an…
Comment linking /2012/04/supporting-millions-of-players-at-roblox/
on “Denial of H1-B visas to India’s largest IT services exporters at all-time high”Submitted How Roblox Is Ensuring, Measuring, and Delivering Platform Reliability as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI haven’t been able to locate anything since the Halloween announcement https://blog.roblox.com/2021/10/update-recent-service-outage... Maybe they are hoping most people forget?
Comment linking /2021/10/update-recent-service-outage/
on “Nov 16 GCP Load Balancing Incident Report”Submitted Causal Inference Using Instrumental Variables as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHere's an article about ROBLOX running BERT on cpus versus GPUs. https://blog.roblox.com/2020/05/scaled-bert-serve-1-billion-... They're not training so I think that's the difference.
Comment linking /2020/05/scaled-bert-serve-1-billion-daily-requests-cpus/
on “Show HN: Cloud GPUs for Deep Learning – At 1/3 the Cost of AWS/GCP”Submitted Voxel Terrain: Storage (2017) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe cardinal rule of databases: http://www.dbms2.com/2013/03/18/dbms-development-marklogic-h... Ignoring that leads to long postmortems about how your embedded db failed in a way you didn’t expect: https://blog.roblox.com/2022/01/roblox-return-to-service-10-... SQLite is good Rocksdb is good You don’t need pure go.
Comment linking /2022/01/roblox-return-to-service-10-28-10-31-2021/
on “A pure Go embedded SQL database”Submitted We're Making Roblox's Infrastructure More Efficient and Resilient as a story · 1 points
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