Scalability: 20 Thousand Requests Per Second and the Secrets of Those Who Survived High Scale
The Invisible Breaking Point Every application’s dream is to grow. But when traffic spikes to tens of thousands of requests per second, what was once
The Invisible Breaking Point Every application’s dream is to grow. But when traffic spikes to tens of thousands of requests per second, what was once
The Silent Pain That Costs You (and No One Sees) You monitor your database. Everything looks “normal.” But suddenly, there’s slowness. The alert. The incident.
If you work with databases in complex environments—whether as a DBA, DevOps, SRE, DBE, or Tech Lead—you know that some problems only surface when they’ve
One Black Friday, One Query, and the Brink of Chaos Imagine this: Friday, 9 PM. Black Friday in full swing. Carts are full, traffic is
In concurrent database environments, lockups are inevitable. They are part of the normal mechanics of consistency control. The problem arises when what should be a
Systems that rely on databases must operate under constant pressure. Volume growth, seasonal spikes, and multiple services running simultaneously—all these factors increase the risk of
Most database performance problems stem from predictable causes. Among them, I/O bottlenecks are some of the most common — and also the most overlooked. As
A slow SQL query remains one of the main performance bottlenecks in systems that heavily rely on databases. Regardless of the architecture — monolithic, distributed,
Observability Solutions Have Evolved Greatly in Recent Years — But Almost All Followed the Same Path: SaaS Services, Distributed Cloud Collection, and Constant Connectivity. For
In recent months, generative AI has fully entered the promises of the observability market. Tools claim to explain logs, automatically create dashboards, or find root