#High Scale

2 articles tagged with High Scale

Global Scale Sharding: Vitess (MySQL) vs Citus (Postgres) vs Google Cloud Spanner

An enterprise database architecture benchmark for horizontal scaling. We analyze hash vs range sharding, distributed transactions with Two-Phase Commit (2PC), Google TrueTime atomic clocks, and serving 1,000,000 QPS across global data centers.

9/2/202624 min read

Building a Rate Limiter That Survives a Traffic Spike: From Token Bucket to Distributed GCRA

Conquer microservice overload and DDoS surges. Learn how to architect a production-ready, distributed rate limiter using the Generic Cell Rate Algorithm (GCRA) and atomic Redis Lua scripts.

8/1/202622 min read