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Last active March 8, 2026 05:35
A reverse-engineered system design of Slack's web application, built from live network traffic analysis of the authenticated Enterprise Grid experience. 200+ API calls captured across boot, search, messaging, reactions, and navigation. Every backend service named.

Slack System Design: A Grounded Teardown

A reverse-engineered system design of Slack's web application, built from live network traffic analysis of the authenticated Enterprise Grid experience. 200+ API calls captured across boot, search, messaging, reactions, and navigation. Every backend service named.

Architecture Overview

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│  BROWSER (Gantry v2 SPA)                                                    │
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sshh12 / netflix-system-design-reverse-engineered.md
Created March 1, 2026 00:41
Netflix's web architecture reverse-engineered from live network traffic -- 18 named internal systems (Akira, Cadmium, Shakti, Pinot, MSL, FTL, Ichnaea...), dual API migration (Falcor → GraphQL), video streaming pipeline, DRM flow, search capability negotiation, and the full content data model. All from 177 captured requests.

Netflix System Design: A Grounded Teardown

A reverse-engineered system design of Netflix's web application, built entirely from live network traffic analysis of the authenticated browse experience. 177 requests captured, every API contract inspected, every subsystem named.

Architecture Overview

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│  BROWSER (Akira SPA)                                                        │
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