7 articles about scalability
HEREâS WHAT I LEARNED BUILDING A SUBSCRIPTION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FROMÂ SCRATCH. If youâve ever built an app, youâve probably started the same way I did a fronten...
WHY COMMON ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT SCALING LEAD TO FRAGILEÂ SYSTEMS Scaling is often seen as a technical problem. More users arrive, and the system needs to handle i...
WHY TESTING FOR STABILITY OFTEN HIDES THE REAL LIMITS OF YOURÂ SYSTEM In previous parts, we explored how systems behave under pressure. Load testing is meant t...
HOW TO BUILD BACKEND SYSTEMS THAT CONTINUE TO WORK EVEN WHEN THINGS GOÂ WRONG In earlier parts [https://medium.com/@akshatjme/list/the-hidden-reasons-your-backe...
MOST BACKEND SYSTEMS DO NOT FAIL DURING DEVELOPMENT. They fail later, in production, when everything seems to be working fine. One day the system is fast and...
Databases do not ârememberâ information the way humans do. They do not reason about correctness or fairness. Instead, they enforce guarantees. At the heart of r...
Learn how to scale database reads as traffic grows through replicas, caching, materialized views, denormalization, and other proven techniques that reduce repeated work.