39 long-form articles on production engineering — how real systems fail, why, and what actually fixed them.
6 articles matching “Scaling”
Scaling & Infra20 min read
Every type of scaling explained simply — horizontal, vertical, reactive, predictive, scheduled. Why HPA and ASG break on Dream11 during an IPL final, flash sales, and push notifications.
Architecture Decisions20 min read
A beginner-friendly walkthrough: what “concurrent” means, what the C10K and C10M problems actually are, how the industry usually fixes them (event loops vs whole-system design), and what still goes wrong in production —…
Architecture Decisions18 min read
Everyone can define read-your-writes consistency; far fewer can implement it on a master/replica cluster without melting the master.
Scaling & Infra22 min read
Not a "what is serverless" post. The stuff you learn after the demo, from someone who's run it at scale.
Scaling & Infra20 min read
Not a "what is Lambda" post. A deep dive into how Lambda actually works: Firecracker microVMs and the Worker/placement fleet, how invocations get routed on the warm vs cold path, and what the INIT phase really does (and…
Architecture Decisions22 min read
A plain-language walkthrough of Pat Helland's 2007 classic "Life beyond Distributed Transactions" — the paper that named the patterns every large system already uses.