#scalability

Articles tagged with #scalability

Sharding vs Partitioning
Learn the difference between logical table partitioning and distributed database sharding.
Jul 2, 20261 min read
High-Level Design: Building a Real-Time Ad Click Aggregator at Scale
Design a high-throughput real-time stream aggregation system that processes billions of events with exactly-once guarantees.
Jun 18, 20269 min read11
Partitioning Approaches in SQL and NoSQL: Horizontal, Vertical, Range, Hash, and List Partitioning
Horizontal, vertical, SQL, and NoSQL partitioning strategies — a map of every approach and when to use each
Apr 12, 202612 min read61
Sharding Approaches in SQL and NoSQL: Range, Hash, and Directory-Based Strategies Compared
How PostgreSQL, MySQL, Cassandra, DynamoDB, and MongoDB implement sharding — the trade-offs every system designer must know
Apr 5, 202629 min read22
ID Generation Strategies in System Design: Base62, UUID, Snowflake, and Beyond
How to choose the right uniqueness strategy — from 6-char short URLs to distributed int64 order IDs
Apr 5, 202626 min read79
Write-Time vs Read-Time Fan-Out: How Social Feeds Scale
The celebrity threshold, Redis sorted sets, and the hybrid model every social platform actually ships.
Mar 29, 202618 min read45

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