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Introduction If you ever wondered when it makes sense to have a separate table versus fields on a table, this is the article for you. We're gonna start and gradually move to a more complex evolving schema. It's an ecommerce website with products. I d...
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Introduction Rate limiting is an important method to control how many requests a user can send to a server in a certain time, like a second, minute, or hour. This helps stop the server from getting too many requests at the same time. Understanding th...
Introduction Scaling is a basic part of cloud computing that helps control how well an application works and if it's always available. In AWS, there are two main ways to scale: vertical scaling and horizontal scaling. Both methods have their own bene...
Introduction High availability is very important for today's distributed systems. It helps services stay available even when some parts fail. This post, based on Chapter 5 of Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann, explores how sys...
Introduction Replication lag is a critical aspect of distributed systems that affects data consistency, user experience, and overall system reliability. My aim here is to simplify the topic, explaining it concisely without leaving important informati...
