Questions tagged [scalability]
Scalability is the ability of a system, network, or process, to handle growing amount of work in a capable manner or its ability to be enlarged to accommodate that growth.
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How do I build my application with high throughput in mind? (Need guidance)
I am building a Spring boot REST API app that is part of a microservice architecture project. What I am planning:
My app listens for events from two other services and after some business logic, ...
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Scaling Heavy Writes When Fetching Data From External API
I have a service that fetches financial data from an external APIs and parses and saves that data in a postgres DB. The data can be quite large in size, our containers have crashed quite a lot due to ...
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How to make a hierarchical permission architecture work performantly?
I was going through this blog - https://www.notion.so/blog/data-model-behind-notion
Which talks about how each page can inherit permission from parent page.
we use an “upward pointer” — the parent ...
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Designing a microservice architecture
I am looking to enhance my skills in back-end technologies and would need your help in setting up a scalable microservices architecture.
Here's my project.
I have N sensors that send me data (Pressure,...
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Design considerations for data shared across multiple users: is Redis a good candidate?
I have an app that has an assets table like the following:
user_id
code
current_price
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user_id and code are unique together and current_price is updated if the user ...
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Is it okay for API endpoints services to communicate directly with the database?
I've started work on a web application personal project that is more a learning opportunity more than anything and I'm brainstorming the stack. My number one priority is to not overcomplicate things ...
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Scaling up an online game using SignalR
I'm developing a web game that currently all runs on one server. It uses SignalR to maintain connections between the server and clients, and the server also sends all the web stuff to clients (HTML/...
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Do we really need a message brocker in WebSocket system?
I'm engineering architecture of a new web based software.
I've never worked on high-scale softwares before and I'm reading a lot about it.
To increase client-side speed and reduce load on servers, and ...
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Am I right that switching programming languages will have little impact on the scalability of a CRUD API?
An external consultant to our team advised us to rewrite our SaaS offering (essentially a CRUD API) in .NET because this is more "scalable" than using Node.js (or Ruby on Rails, Flask, etc.)....
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Architecture solution for scalable crawling
I have the following requirements:
a list of queries (rather long list ~ 100K - 1M items or even more) that I need to perform in a certain period of time and the execution time must be predictable. ...
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Handling notifications at scale
How do applications like twitter handle notifications at scale.
For example @BarackObama has 131.3 million followers. When he tweets, how is that notification sent to all 131.3 million followers.
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Difficulty understanding how federation increases cache performance for databases?
I am studying system design for distributed systems and in this page (https://github.com/donnemartin/system-design-primer), one of the following advantages was mentioned for federation for databases ...
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Real time chat at scale
I have been looking at different solutions for large scale chatting solutions. I feel as if I understand 90 % of it but am turning to this forum to tie the knot.
I imagine running a bunch of message ...
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Server performance and CMS scalability [closed]
I have been given the job of a colleague who has resigned and I don't know where to start. I hope you can give me some hints:
It is about a CMS made from scratch (Javascript/jQuery/PHP/MySQL) which ...
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Scalable Web Data Service Approach
I'm looking to build a service that interacts with an existing web application's database. The service would retrieve data from an api for which the web application users own an account and warehouse/...
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