ByteByteGoHq/system-design-101
Explain complex systems using visuals and simple terms. Help you prepare for system design interviews.
90.5k stars · 10.1k forks
Avoid
Avoid: no human commits in a year, and most questions go unanswered.
Why
- No human commits since April 2025, and only 0 of 11 recent issues got a maintainer reply. (source 1, source 2, source 3, source 4)
What would change this
- A release or merged commit from a maintainer, or replies to recent issues.
Maintenance
CompleteDormant
- Human commits, 30 days
- 0
- Human commits, 90 days
- 0
- Human commits, 365 days
- 0
- Bot share of commits, 365 days
- 0%
- Last commit
- Apr 4, 2025 (1 year ago)
- Last human commit
- Apr 4, 2025 (1 year ago)
- Authors, 90 days
- 0
- Last release
- none found
- Median PR merge time
- 8 hours
Responsiveness: of 11 recent issues, 0% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: n/a.
- No human commits in 365 days, and most issues go unanswered.
Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues
People
Complete- Owner
- Organization
- Commits sampled
- 25 since Oct 16, 2023
- Authors for half of commits
- 4
- Authors for 80% of commits
- 11
- Contributors
- 15
Top committers
- slam: 28% of commits
- ByteByteGoHq: 8% of commits
- LombardiDaniel: 8% of commits
- nilbuild: 8% of commits
- alastairp: 4% of commits
- No human commits in the last 365 days, so shares use the newest 100 commits back to 2023-10-16T01:49:24Z.
Sources: Commits, Contributors
Stars
CompleteMostly organic, confidence high
Bursts
- Oct 23, 2023 to Nov 12, 2023: about 17k more stars than usual, peak 4.2k in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post.
- Jan 10, 2024 to Jan 13, 2024: about 592 more stars than usual, peak 259 in one day, a flat block of stars. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Jan 24, 2024 to Feb 1, 2024: about 1.2k more stars than usual, peak 405 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
- Feb 27, 2024 to Feb 29, 2024: about 230 more stars than usual, peak 148 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
- May 9, 2024 to May 16, 2024: about 1.4k more stars than usual, peak 562 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
- Aug 4, 2024 to Aug 6, 2024: about 187 more stars than usual, peak 126 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
- Aug 24, 2024 to Aug 25, 2024: about 236 more stars than usual, peak 227 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
- Nov 19, 2024 to Nov 21, 2024: about 114 more stars than usual, peak 65 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
- Dec 14, 2024 to Dec 24, 2024: about 1.8k more stars than usual, peak 461 in one day, a shape we can't classify. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
- Jan 20, 2025 to Jan 24, 2025: about 321 more stars than usual, peak 160 in one day, a shape we can't classify. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
- Feb 25, 2025 to Mar 1, 2025: about 273 more stars than usual, peak 156 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
- Mar 21, 2025 to Mar 26, 2025: about 1.6k more stars than usual, peak 385 in one day, a shape we can't classify. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
- May 30, 2025 to Jun 1, 2025: about 365 more stars than usual, peak 246 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
- Jun 21, 2025 to Jun 22, 2025: about 129 more stars than usual, peak 135 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
- Jul 9, 2025 to Jul 14, 2025: about 778 more stars than usual, peak 285 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Sep 13, 2025 to Sep 14, 2025: about 68 more stars than usual, peak 58 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
- Sep 21, 2025 to Sep 25, 2025: about 779 more stars than usual, peak 229 in one day, a shape we can't classify. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
- Mar 6, 2026 to Mar 8, 2026: about 292 more stars than usual, peak 200 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
- Mar 14, 2026 to Mar 16, 2026: about 602 more stars than usual, peak 408 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
- May 1, 2026 to May 2, 2026: about 105 more stars than usual, peak 97 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
- Jun 2, 2026 to Jun 5, 2026: about 254 more stars than usual, peak 161 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jun 25, 2026 to Jun 30, 2026: about 1.2k more stars than usual, peak 725 in one day, a shape we can't classify. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
- Jul 12, 2026 to Jul 20, 2026: about 795 more stars than usual, peak 279 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
- Aug 26, 2026 to Aug 26, 2026: about 72 more stars than usual, peak 106 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
- Sep 2, 2026 to Sep 6, 2026: about 894 more stars than usual, peak 474 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
- Sep 20, 2026 to Sep 23, 2026: about 288 more stars than usual, peak 138 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
- 9 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 13, 2026).
Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.
- Anyone can buy stars for any repo, so this describes the star history only.
Sources: How star history is analyzed
Risk
CompleteFlags
No risk flags.
License
- Now
- No license found
- A year ago
- Not known
Packages
No published packages found.
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[](https://reporadar.ai/ByteByteGoHq/system-design-101)Earlier verdicts
- Oct 14, 2026: Avoid
- Oct 13, 2026: Avoid
- Oct 13, 2026: Avoid
Computed 19 hours ago · method 2026.10.2