197 discussions in the community
hey everyone, i'm trying to nail down the exact point where adding a dedicated caching layer, like Redis or Memcached, becomes more beneficial than de...
So, I've been thinking about rate limiting a bunch, particularly for APIs that everyone can use. It feels super important for stopping abuse and makin...
I've seen so much chatter about API Gateways recently, especially with microservices. It feels like everyone puts one in front of their services. But ...
hey everyone, i'm trying to figure out something for a new project and could use your input. we're creating a recommendation engine. a relational data...
Hey everyone, I'm looking to implement feature flagging in our next project and wanted to get some recommendations. We're a small team, so something t...
hey ppl ive been thinkin bout api versioning lately as we scale up our services weve used url versioning in the past like v1 users but it feels a bit ...
hey everyone, ive been thinking a lot about async processing lately. we have a few services that are getting bogged down with background tasks like se...
hey all, ive been thinking about background jobs and async processing lately. some tasks take a while, like image processing or making reports, and it...
hey everyone, i've been thinking about data storage strategies for analytics lately. we're hitting a point where our current relational database is ge...
im thinking bout using feature flags for a new project. seems like a good way to separate deployment from release yknow, for gradual rollouts and easy...
hey everyone, im tryin to figure out the tipping point for when a single relational database just isnt cutting it anymore and its time to consider sha...
hey everyone, i'm trying to figure out when it makes sense to move away from off-the-shelf monitoring tools like Prometheus or Datadog and build somet...
hey folks, been thinking about our microservices architecture lately. we're hitting a point where managing inter-service communication, observability,...
ive been seeing a lot about service meshes like istio and linkerd lately, and they seem to offer a lot of features for managing microservices communic...
our eng org has been feeling the pain of tool sprawl and inconsistent dev environments lately. we have a mix of custom scripts, off-the-shelf tools, a...
hey everyone, i've been thinking a lot about content delivery lately. we've got a growing user base, and i'm starting to wonder when a Content Deliver...
ive been seeing command query responsibility segregation c q r s mentioned more often in scaling discussions. the idea of separating read and write mo...
Hey everyone, I'm running into some scaling problems with a pretty busy web app. The main database is starting to struggle with all the read requests,...
hey everyone, i've been thinking about how to make our microservice architectures more resilient. we're looking at putting circuit breakers in at the ...
Lately, I've been thinking about how to best handle asynchronous tasks that don't need to happen right away. You know, things like sending emails, pro...