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When does database connection pooling become a bottleneck?

im seeing some interesting latency spikes in our app lately and im trying to pinpoint the cause weve got a connection pool and its generally well size...

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Huan LiangHuan Liang
1306841

When do you really need a message queue?

hey everyone im thinking bout message queues lately. weve got a few services that are tightly coupled and rely on synch communication. im wondering wh...

ScalingTrade-offsPerformance
Kei MatsubaraKei Matsubara
1491122

You know, you should really think about database sharding when your data gets too big to handle on a single server.

hey everyone, im wrestling with a growing dataset and starting to think about the next step beyond just adding more powerful hardware or read replicas...

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Omir TursunbayevOmir Tursunbayev
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So, when should you stop using polling and switch to webhooks? That's the big question, right?

hey everyone, curious about your experiences with real-time updates. we're currently polling an external API every 30 seconds to check for changes. it...

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Olamide AyodeleOlamide Ayodele
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kafka or rabbitmq when do you use which one

hey folks im runnin into a common crossroads and wanted to get some community input we're buildin out a new data pipeline that needs to handle high th...

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Perizat AlmabekPerizat Almabek
1712823

when should you move from a monolith to microservices?

hey all im wrestling w a decision for our main app its currently a monolith and tho it was great for getting started were hitting some scaling and dep...

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Ibtisam N. MansourIbtisam N. Mansour
1532532

when should we think about using a CDN for stuff users create

hey everyone, im working on a project with a lot of user-uploaded images and videos. right now, were serving everything straight from our app servers,...

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Nikolai VasilievNikolai Vasiliev
1102128

when to seriously consider message queues for backend services

Hey everyone, I've been thinking a lot about message queues lately, specifically for decoupling backend services. It seems like a pretty common approa...

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Vidar LundbergVidar Lundberg
811029

database connection pooling, is it always worth the hassle

hey everyone, ive been thinking a lot about database connection pooling lately. on one hand, it seems like a no-brainer for performance, avoiding the ...

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Fabiana CabreraFabiana Cabrera
651028

caching invalidation, what's your most painful trade-off? dont tell me its a simple fix, because i know its not.

hey everyone, ive been wrestling with caching invalidation lately. we all know caching is key for performance, but keeping it fresh without causing to...

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Vanida ChaisriVanida Chaisri
1187036

message queues, durability versus speed trade-offs?

hey everyone, i've been wrestling with message queues lately, specifically around the durability versus speed trade-off. some queues offer strong guar...

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Piet VanderlaanPiet Vanderlaan
1951331

handling distributed transactions, right?

ive been wrestling with implementing distributed transactions across microservices recently. the standard two-phase commit 2PC seems like a common app...

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Elzira IsmailovaElzira Ismailova
1990627

real-time collaboration: WebSockets versus Server-Sent Events, what's the deal

Hey everyone, I'm building a new feature that needs to update lots of clients at once, kind of like Google Docs. I'm trying to figure out if WebSocket...

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Leyla BekmirzaLeyla Bekmirza
1848729

Rate Limiting, which strategy works best for you?

hey everyone, i've been thinking a lot about rate limiting lately, and how crucial it is for protecting our services. we've seen discussions on bucke...

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Branimir PericBranimir Peric
2279823

caching, invalidate or refresh, what's your goto?

Hey everyone, I've been thinking a lot about caching strategies recently. When the data in a cache gets old, do you usually go with an invalidation ap...

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Rania BenaliRania Benali
1459130

Scaling read operations: Read replicas or CQRS?

hey everyone im trying to design a system where read ops are way more common than writes im trying to figure out if i should use database read replica...

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Dilnara TurarbekovaDilnara Turarbekova
1216022

real-time data sync, WebSockets or Server-Sent Events?

hey everyone, i'm wrestling with a common problem for our new real-time dashboard. we need to push updates from the server to the client as they happe...

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Keyla RiosKeyla Rios
2792231

When I need to cache data that's accessed a lot, I usually go with Redis.

hey everyone, i'm thinking about how to optimize our read performance for our main product catalog. we've got a lot of frequently accessed items, and ...

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Bunga DewiBunga Dewi
2019628

api versioning and backwards compatibility, how do you even do that

hey everyone, thinking about api versioning. we're using a microservices approach and our user base is growing. we want to add new features without br...

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Jasmina KovačJasmina Kovač
694531

Rate limiting strategies, what's your default?

Hey everyone, I've been thinking a lot about rate limiting lately. APIs are everywhere now, and we really need to protect services from abuse or overl...

System DesignPerformanceTrade-offs
Jasmine TranJasmine Tran
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