Scaling to a Million Concurrent Users: Lessons from the Trenches
How we redesigned our architecture to handle Black Friday traffic spikes without breaking a sweat. A deep dive into load balancing, caching strategies, and database optimization.
Technical deep-dives, industry trends, and lessons learned from building systems at scale. Written by engineers who've been there.
How we redesigned our architecture to handle Black Friday traffic spikes without breaking a sweat. A deep dive into load balancing, caching strategies, and database optimization.
Migrating 500TB of data from MongoDB to PostgreSQL while serving production traffic. The strategies, tools, and lessons that made it possible.
Beyond the hype: real-world challenges of deploying LLMs at scale, from inference costs to prompt injection attacks and model drift.
War stories from managing 200+ microservices in production. From OOMKilled pods to certificate renewal nightmares.
Complete transparency about a breach attempt we thwarted. How our security layers worked, what we learned, and changes we made.
An honest retrospective on our 18-month migration journey. The good, the bad, and the would-we-do-it-again.