System Design
WebSocket Capacity Planning for Social Products
WebSocket capacity planning for social products: budget memory, file descriptors, and fan-out per connection so you scale before connections, not CPU, break first.
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Distributed Systems
Backpressure Design for Real-Time Systems
Backpressure keeps real-time systems alive under load by making producers slow down instead of drowning consumers. Strategies, tradeoffs, and a checklist.