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Designing Instagram

High Scalability

Currently, he is in the Alexa Shopping organization where he is developing machine-learning-based solutions to send personalized reorder hints to customers for improving their experience. Design a photo-sharing platform similar to Instagram where users can upload their photos and share it with their followers. High Level Design.

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Architectural Insights: Designing Efficient Multi-Layered Caching With Instagram Example

DZone

Leveraging this hierarchical structure can significantly reduce latency and improve overall performance.

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API Design Principles for Optimal Performance and Scalability

DZone

The goal is to help developers, technical managers, and business owners understand the importance of API performance optimization and how they can improve the speed, scalability, and reliability of their APIs. What Is API Performance Optimization?

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Timestone: Netflix’s High-Throughput, Low-Latency Priority Queueing System with Built-in Support…

The Netflix TechBlog

Timestone: Netflix’s High-Throughput, Low-Latency Priority Queueing System with Built-in Support for Non-Parallelizable Workloads by Kostas Christidis Introduction Timestone is a high-throughput, low-latency priority queueing system we built in-house to support the needs of Cosmos , our media encoding platform. Over the past 2.5

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LinkedIn Migrates Espresso to HTTP2 and Reduces Connections by 88% and Latency by 75%

InfoQ

to HTTP2, resulting in a reduction in the number of connections, latency, and garbage collection times. LinkedIn was able to dramatically improve the scalability and performance of its Espresso database by migrating it from HTTP1.1 To achieve these gains, the team had to optimize the Netty’s default HTTP2 stack to make it fit their needs.

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Why applying chaos engineering to data-intensive applications matters

Dynatrace

Stream processing systems, designed for continuous, low-latency processing, demand swift recovery mechanisms to tolerate and mitigate failures effectively. We designed experimental scenarios inspired by chaos engineering. This significantly increases event latency. Recovery time of the throughput metric.

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Scalable Annotation Service?—?Marken

The Netflix TechBlog

The service should be able to serve real-time, aka UI, applications so CRUD and search operations should be achieved with low latency. Our service will be used by a lot of internal UI applications hence the latency for CRUD and search operations must be low. Search latency for the generic text queries are in milliseconds.