37 discussions in the community
hey everyone ive been thinkin bout load balancing lately esp for a new project were starting small but we anticipate growth round robin seems pretty s...
hey everyone, im lookin to get some insights on database sharding strategies. specifically, for applications expecting a high volume of read and write...
Hey everyone, I'm trying to figure out the best way to cache frequently accessed user data. We're seeing a lot of repeated read operations for things ...
So, I've been thinking a lot about keeping our APIs stable and, you know, stopping them from getting overloaded or abused. Rate limiting feels like a ...
hey folks, im architecting a new service and were thinking about api rate limiting. it seems like theres two main approaches: setting a global limit f...
Hey everyone, I'm trying to get a better handle on testing in a microservices architecture. It's pretty easy to test services in isolation when they'r...
Hey everyone, I'm building a new web app and want to make sure it's completely stateless. The plan is to scale it out horizontally quite a bit. I've b...
hey everyone, i'm working on a system that has a lot of read operations for data that doesn't change too often. we're seeing some performance bottlene...
Hey everyone, I've been struggling a bit with designing APIs for systems that are, well, eventually consistent. Like, when a user changes their profil...
hey everyone, i'm working on a system where we have multiple services that need to communicate asynchronously. right now, we're using direct REST call...
hey everyone, im working on a project that's starting to see some decent traffic, and im wondering about the tipping point for introducing a load bala...
hey everyone, i'm starting to wonder about database sharding. we're growing, and while our current setup is fine, i can foresee potential scaling issu...
so my system is getting a little complicated and i'm wondering when's the best time to throw in a message queue like Kafka or RabbitMQ. we've got a co...
hey everyone, im working on a new project and im starting to think about how to handle background tasks and inter-service communication. i've seen mes...
Hey everyone, I'm pretty new to system design and I've been reading up on caching. It feels like a super important idea, but I'm having trouble figuri...
hey folks, I've been working on a few microservice-based projects lately and the topic of API Gateways keeps coming up. I get the general benefits lik...
hey folks, ive been using RabbitMQ for a few projects now and its been great for decoupling services and handling background jobs. but, im starting to...
Hey everyone, I've been building some web apps lately, and CDNs keep coming up. Right now, we're mostly handling static assets, but I'm wondering when...
That's a good question. I'd say you should consider it when you've got different parts of your system that need to talk to each other, but they don't ...
ads data that rarely changes, and you need to keep your database consistent. Okay, so you're building a new service and thinking about caching. I hea...
