#scalability

Articles tagged with #scalability

Rate Limiting
Your API launches. Traffic is steady. Then a bot starts hammering your login endpoint with thousands of requests per second. Or a misbehaving client enters a retry loop. Or someone launches a brute-fo
Apr 11, 202619 min read3
Load Balancers
You've built an API server. It's handling 100 requests per second just fine. Then your app goes viral. Traffic spikes to 500 requests per second. Your single server can't keep up. Requests are timing
Jan 11, 202614 min read
Understanding Database Scaling and Sharding Patterns
One of the fastest ways to break a production system is to underestimate the database. Things often look fine in staging. Then real traffic arrives: your read volume spikes, your write rate grows, ind
Jan 7, 202622 min read

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