Questions tagged [scalability]
Scalability is the ability of a system, network, or process, to handle growing amount of work in a capable manner or its ability to be enlarged to accommodate that growth.
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How can I efficiently handle click events and sequentially related operations (like user–URL deactivation) in a scalable URL shortener?
I am learning backend development by building a simple URL shortener project. My goal is to learn backend concepts and try to do things in simple but better ways, keeping scalability and reliability ...
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Practicing DDD from the biggest modules to the smallest widgets
I have a frontend project using VueJS and TS and I structured it using DDD. So far, I have some modules (bounded contexts, domains - use the term you prefer) which are used in two ways: some modules ...
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Best practices for serving encrypted files in Laravel?
I'm building a Laravel-based web application that functions as a personal online photo archive. Each user uploads and manages their own private collection of images. These images are encrypted at rest ...
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Scaling/microservices approach to reading files from same directory
My company receives files via SFTP. We currently have a service running on a timer that:
polls the inbound directory
moves files to an 'In Progress' directory
processes files (queueing messages for ...
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How to create a job management for a hybrid cloud/on-premise software?
I am exploring the state-of-the-art methods to create a service that can run and scale in both cloud (container) and on-premise environments.
The current version of the software is designed for on-...
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How do I build my application with high throughput in mind? (Need guidance)
I am building a Spring boot REST API app that is part of a microservice architecture project. What I am planning:
My app listens for events from two other services and after some business logic, ...
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Scaling Heavy Writes When Fetching Data From External API
I have a service that fetches financial data from an external APIs and parses and saves that data in a postgres DB. The data can be quite large in size, our containers have crashed quite a lot due to ...
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How do you build a high availability, horizontally scaling application [closed]
I've designed an application, but I've had problems with scaling. Initially, this application was a simple docker compose file, that ran on a decently powerful VM.
Containerization is great, but the ...
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How to make a hierarchical permission architecture work performantly?
I was going through this blog - https://www.notion.so/blog/data-model-behind-notion
Which talks about how each page can inherit permission from parent page.
we use an “upward pointer” — the parent ...
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Designing a microservice architecture
I am looking to enhance my skills in back-end technologies and would need your help in setting up a scalable microservices architecture.
Here's my project.
I have N sensors that send me data (Pressure,...
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Design considerations for data shared across multiple users: is Redis a good candidate?
I have an app that has an assets table like the following:
user_id
code
current_price
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11.9
user_id and code are unique together and current_price is updated if the user triggers ...
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Is it okay for API endpoints services to communicate directly with the database?
I've started work on a web application personal project that is more a learning opportunity more than anything and I'm brainstorming the stack. My number one priority is to not overcomplicate things ...
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Scaling up an online game using SignalR
I'm developing a web game that currently all runs on one server. It uses SignalR to maintain connections between the server and clients, and the server also sends all the web stuff to clients (HTML/...
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Do we really need a message brocker in WebSocket system?
I'm engineering architecture of a new web based software.
I've never worked on high-scale softwares before and I'm reading a lot about it.
To increase client-side speed and reduce load on servers, and ...
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Am I right that switching programming languages will have little impact on the scalability of a CRUD API?
An external consultant to our team advised us to rewrite our SaaS offering (essentially a CRUD API) in .NET because this is more "scalable" than using Node.js (or Ruby on Rails, Flask, etc.)....
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