Solid breakdown of the classic database optimizaton playbook. The throughput requirements point is underrated tho, most teams jump straight to sharding without knowing if they actually need 100k writes/sec or 10k. I've seen denormalization solve 80% of performance issues in read-heavy systems way faster than adding complexity with replicaton and caching layers.
Solid breakdown of the classic database optimizaton playbook. The throughput requirements point is underrated tho, most teams jump straight to sharding without knowing if they actually need 100k writes/sec or 10k. I've seen denormalization solve 80% of performance issues in read-heavy systems way faster than adding complexity with replicaton and caching layers.