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Designing Instagram

High Scalability

Design a photo-sharing platform similar to Instagram where users can upload their photos and share it with their followers. High Level Design. We will use a graph database such as Neo4j to store the information. Component Design. API Design. We have provided the API design of posting an image on Instagram below.

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Design Of A Modern Cache—Part Deux

High Scalability

The previous article described the caching algorithms used by Caffeine , in particular the eviction and concurrency models. This allows for quickly discarding new arrivals that are unlikely to be used again, guarding the main region from cache pollution.

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Redis vs Memcached in 2024

Scalegrid

In this comparison of Redis vs Memcached, we strip away the complexity, focusing on each in-memory data store’s performance, scalability, and unique features. Redis is better suited for complex data models, and Memcached is better suited for high-throughput, string-based caching scenarios.

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How RevenueCat Manages Caching for Handling over 1.2 Billion Daily API Requests

InfoQ

RevenueCat extensively uses caching to improve the availability and performance of its product API while ensuring consistency. The company shared its techniques to deliver the platform, which can handle over 1.2 billion daily API requests. The team at RevenueCat created an open-source memcache client that provides several advanced features.

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The Ultimate Guide to Database High Availability

Percona

To make data count and to ensure cloud computing is unabated, companies and organizations must have highly available databases. A basic high availability database system provides failover (preferably automatic) from a primary database node to redundant nodes within a cluster. HA is sometimes confused with “fault tolerance.”

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Sustainable IT: Optimize your hybrid-cloud carbon footprint

Dynatrace

Options at each level offer significant potential benefits, especially when complemented by practices that influence the design and purchase decisions made by IT leaders and individual contributors. Reduce the volume of data volumes requested from databases (for example, request all, filter in memory). We encourage you to take a look.

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What is a Distributed Storage System

Scalegrid

Key Takeaways Distributed storage systems benefit organizations by enhancing data availability, fault tolerance, and system scalability, leading to cost savings from reduced hardware needs, energy consumption, and personnel. Variations within these storage systems are called distributed file systems.

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