Tailoring Backends to Match Your Clients.

This allows the ability to absorb additional requests without failing.

The same threads can be reused again and again while still waiting for the existing IO operation to respond.

The easiest way to increase our application throughput.

The dual nature of the database serving both read and write operations limits our application scalability.

ACID properties are very useful, but the main problem is that two of them, consistency and isolation, seriously hamper scalability.

Features of web applications that boost scalability.

Simple architectures have default features that hamper the scalability of your web application.

A compromised web server is unpleasant, but it’s a contained incident if that server had no direct path to the crown jewels.

The Month-End Bottleneck

In a high-performance mobile banking system, we chose gRPC with Protobuf over REST/JSON to meet a strict 200 ms response time target.

Our fintech system supports iOS, Android, a web portal, and even a Zendesk SAAS. Each with its own needs