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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. Component Design. API Design. We have provided the API design of posting an image on Instagram below. API Design. Problem Statement. Architecture. Data Models.

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How DoorDash Rearchitected its Cache to Improve Scalability and Performance

InfoQ

DoorDash rearchitected the heterogeneous caching system they were using across all of their microservices and created a common, multi-layered cache providing a generic mechanism and solving a number of issues coming from the adoption of a fragmented cache. By Sergio De Simone

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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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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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Hashnode Creates Scalable Feed Architecture on AWS with Step Functions, EventBridge and Redis

InfoQ

Hashnode created a scalable event-driven architecture (EDA) for composing feed data for thousands of users. The company used serverless services on AWS, including Lambda, Step Functions, EventBridge, and Redis Cache. The solution leverages Step Functions' distributed maps feature that enables high-concurrency processing.

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Supporting Diverse ML Systems at Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

Since its inception , Metaflow has been designed to provide a human-friendly API for building data and ML (and today AI) applications and deploying them in our production infrastructure frictionlessly. Deployment: Cache To produce business value, all our Metaflow projects are deployed to work with other production systems.

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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. Implement appropriate caching layers (for example, read-only cache for static data). Reduce inter-process communications overhead.

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