How to Build a Billion‑Scale Open Platform: Architecture, Caching, and Resilience
This article presents a step‑by‑step engineering guide for designing, evolving, and operating a high‑traffic open platform, covering three‑layer decoupled architecture, multi‑level caching, asynchronous message queues, distributed transaction models, high‑availability strategies, and phased rollout plans to sustain billions of daily API calls.
