The Problem I watched a product go from 200 users to 40,000 users in three weeks. It was a good problem to have. Until the database started choking. Page loads went from 300ms to 12 seconds. The team kept scaling…
The Problem — One Database Does Not Fit Everything A startup builds its first product. One database. Everything goes in. User accounts, orders, logs, notifications — all in one place. Traffic grows. New features arrive. The team adds a social…
The Problem — Computers Do Not Understand Names A developer types github.com into a browser. The page loads in one second. Simple. But computers do not understand names. Computers talk to each other using numbers. Every server on the internet…
The Problem — Apps That Can’t Talk Imagine a food delivery app. A customer places an order. Three things must happen at once: Simple enough. Now imagine 10,000 orders come in at once. The app sends a message to the…
Target Audience This post is for backend engineers, DevOps engineers, and anyone preparing for system design interviews who wants to understand why some apps feel instant — and others feel slow. What You Will Learn You will understand how caching…