InfoQ Homepage Performance & Scalability Content on InfoQ
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Performance: Adventures in Thread-per-Core Async with Redpanda and Seastar
John Spray describes an experience of building high performance systems with C++20 in an asynchronous runtime, and explores the challenges & tradeoffs in adopting a thread-per-core architecture.
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Scaling Defenses Amidst Evolving Threat Landscape
Aditi Gupta discusses the design choices made early on during service development that were crucial to scaling operations later on at Netflix.
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Azure Cosmos DB: Low Latency and High Availability at Planet Scale
Mei-Chin Tsai and Vinod Sridharan discuss the internal architecture of Azure Cosmos DB and how it achieves high availability, low latency, and scalability.
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Magic Pocket: Dropbox’s Exabyte-Scale Blob Storage System
Facundo Agriel dives into the architecture of Magic Pocket, some early key design patterns, and the challenges of operating such a system at this scale.
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Leveraging Determinism
Frank Yu discusses how to decrease bandwidth usage and buffering across the system, protect against thundering herd problems, and simplify the logic of gateway and persistence services.
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The After Party: Refactoring After 100x Hypergrowth
Phil Calçado explores how they dealt with the hyper growth phase and the changes and initiatives they have put in place to make sure that they keep growing and pushing the envelope.
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How SeatGeek Successfully Handles High Demand Ticket On-Sales
Anderson Parra and Vitor Pellegrino discuss how their ticketing systems work and cover the virtual waiting room – the primary component that allows them to handle high-traffic ticket on-sales.
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Airbnb at Scale
Selina Liu walks through what it takes to decompose a large and complex monolith into independent, performant services, and how they evolve and scale the architecture with changing business needs.
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Depending on Whether I Had Coffee or Not, Your Application May Be High Risk
Shannon Morrison and Scott Behrens discuss how to perform application risk analysis at scale.
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Operating Pivotal Application Service at Scale
Yusuke Kondo and Akinori Nitta explain the challenges faced and solutions experienced to run and manage a large-scale platform.
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Introducing and Scaling a GraphQL BFF
Michelle Garrett talks about the journey of introducing and then scaling a GraphQL BFF to serve multiple applications.
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Scaling Stack Overflow: Keeping it Vertical by Obsessing Over Performance
David Fullerton shares some of the things the Stack Exchange tech team have learned along the way while scaling one of the top sites in the world primarily through vertical scaling.