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fromInfoWorld
4 days ago

The 'Super Bowl' standard: Architecting distributed systems for massive concurrency

When I manage infrastructure for major events (whether it is the Olympics, a Premier League match or a season finale) I am dealing with a "thundering herd" problem that few systems ever face. Millions of users log in, browse and hit "play" within the same three-minute window. But this challenge isn't unique to media. It is the same nightmare that keeps e-commerce CTOs awake before Black Friday or financial systems architects up during a market crash. The fundamental problem is always the same: How do you survive when demand exceeds capacity by an order of magnitude?
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fromTechzine Global
3 weeks ago

ScyllaDB: We're so over, overprovisioning

ScyllaDB X Cloud provides truly elastic, auto-scaling database capacity to reduce overprovisioning and deliver predictable high-throughput, ultra-low-latency performance.
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fromLondon Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com
2 months ago

Why digital services slow down during big events - And how modern tech is solving it

Sudden, concentrated spikes in user demand overload servers and databases, causing widespread slowdowns during major events; coordination and storage under extreme load are primary causes.
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