BestHub
Sign in
Tagged articles

scalability

1320 articles · Page 14 of 14
Art of Distributed System Architecture Design
Art of Distributed System Architecture Design
May 27, 2015 · Backend Development

WhatsApp’s High‑Reliability Architecture for 450 Million Users

This article examines WhatsApp’s high‑reliability architecture that supports 450 million users, detailing its Erlang‑based backend, hardware choices, scaling techniques, performance metrics, monitoring tools, and lessons learned from achieving up to two million concurrent connections on a single server.

WhatsApperlanghigh availability
0 likes · 18 min read
WhatsApp’s High‑Reliability Architecture for 450 Million Users
Art of Distributed System Architecture Design
Art of Distributed System Architecture Design
May 10, 2015 · Cloud Computing

Designing Scalable and Highly Available Systems on Azure: Patterns, Anti‑Patterns, and Practical Guidance

This article examines key considerations for building highly scalable and available systems on Azure, outlining four architectural dimensions—scalability, availability, manageability, and feasibility—while discussing patterns, anti‑patterns, measurable resources, queue‑based load balancing, authentication services, and common pitfalls such as configuration errors and SQL injection.

ArchitectureAzureCloud Computing
0 likes · 8 min read
Designing Scalable and Highly Available Systems on Azure: Patterns, Anti‑Patterns, and Practical Guidance
Art of Distributed System Architecture Design
Art of Distributed System Architecture Design
May 3, 2015 · Backend Development

Designing Scalable Netty Push Services: Real‑World IoT Lessons

This article analyzes common push‑service questions, presents a memory‑leak case from an IoT MQTT middleware, and provides detailed Netty design guidelines—including file‑handle limits, CLOSE_WAIT handling, thread and task management, heartbeat tuning, buffer allocation, memory‑pool usage, logging pitfalls, TCP and JVM optimizations—to help engineers build stable, high‑performance million‑connection push servers.

IoTMemory LeakNetty
0 likes · 23 min read
Designing Scalable Netty Push Services: Real‑World IoT Lessons
Art of Distributed System Architecture Design
Art of Distributed System Architecture Design
Apr 22, 2015 · Cloud Computing

Guidelines for Building Elastic Scalable Applications on Google Cloud Platform

The article summarizes Google’s recent papers that outline an architectural guide for creating elastic, scalable web applications on Google Cloud Platform, describing key components such as regions, zones, load balancers, autoscalers, Cloud SQL, Cloud Storage, and deployment best‑practices.

AutoscalerCloud SQLCloud Storage
0 likes · 5 min read
Guidelines for Building Elastic Scalable Applications on Google Cloud Platform
MaGe Linux Operations
MaGe Linux Operations
Apr 20, 2015 · Backend Development

50 Proven Principles for Building Highly Scalable Websites

This article distills the key takeaways from the book “50 Principles of High‑Scalability Websites,” presenting concise guidelines on avoiding over‑design, planning capacity, simplifying architecture, optimizing DNS and assets, leveraging horizontal scaling, proper database usage, caching, fault isolation, asynchronous messaging, and continuous learning to build robust, easily extensible web systems.

Cloud Computingcachingdatabase design
0 likes · 15 min read
50 Proven Principles for Building Highly Scalable Websites
Art of Distributed System Architecture Design
Art of Distributed System Architecture Design
Mar 25, 2015 · Operations

How WhatsApp Scaled to 400 Million Daily Messages with a 10‑Engineer Team

This article examines how WhatsApp grew its user base, message volume, and infrastructure dramatically over two years while keeping the engineering team at ten, detailing the architectural choices, Erlang‑based stack, hardware scaling, decoupling strategies, and the operational challenges that led to both performance gains and a major outage.

MnesiaOperationsPerformance Optimization
0 likes · 15 min read
How WhatsApp Scaled to 400 Million Daily Messages with a 10‑Engineer Team
Art of Distributed System Architecture Design
Art of Distributed System Architecture Design
Mar 16, 2015 · Industry Insights

Inside Facebook’s Massive Architecture: How the Social Giant Scales to Billions

The article details Facebook’s LAMP‑based architecture, describing how HipHop compiles PHP to C++, Thrift‑based services in PHP, C++, and Java run on custom servers, and how MySQL, Memcached, Cassandra, HBase, Hadoop, Hive, Scribe, BigPipe, Varnish, Haystack and other components together enable handling over 60,000 servers, 300 TB of cached data, 1 trillion daily clicks and petabytes of storage.

ArchitectureBackendFacebook
0 likes · 7 min read
Inside Facebook’s Massive Architecture: How the Social Giant Scales to Billions
Qunar Tech Salon
Qunar Tech Salon
Mar 13, 2015 · Backend Development

Design and Optimization of Massive Push Services Using Netty

This article analyzes common push‑service questions, presents a real‑world IoT case of memory leakage, and outlines key design points—including kernel limits, CLOSE_WAIT handling, heartbeat configuration, buffer management, memory pooling, logging pitfalls, TCP tuning, and JVM settings—to build a scalable, stable Netty‑based push server for millions of concurrent connections.

Backend DevelopmentJavaNetty
0 likes · 24 min read
Design and Optimization of Massive Push Services Using Netty
Art of Distributed System Architecture Design
Art of Distributed System Architecture Design
Feb 27, 2015 · Backend Development

How WeChat Processed Over 1 Billion Red Packets: Backend Architecture and High‑Concurrency Strategies

The article explains how WeChat’s backend handled the massive surge of red‑packet traffic during the 2015 New Year by employing loss‑tolerant services, flexible availability, modular design, asynchronous processing, and overload protection to ensure fast, accurate, and stable user experiences.

Lossy ServiceWeChatbackend architecture
0 likes · 9 min read
How WeChat Processed Over 1 Billion Red Packets: Backend Architecture and High‑Concurrency Strategies
ITPUB
ITPUB
Jan 9, 2015 · Databases

Inside Alibaba’s DRDS: How Distributed Databases Power Double‑11

This interview with Alibaba’s DRDS expert Shen Xun reveals how the distributed relational database service evolved from an internal tool to a cloud‑native solution, detailing its architecture, scalability advantages, middleware ecosystem, and real‑world performance during massive events like Double‑11.

Alibaba CloudDRDSdistributed database
0 likes · 18 min read
Inside Alibaba’s DRDS: How Distributed Databases Power Double‑11
Qunar Tech Salon
Qunar Tech Salon
Jan 8, 2015 · Fundamentals

Understanding JVM Performance Limits and Tuning Strategies

The article examines the inherent scalability constraints of the JVM, explains how memory walls and pause times affect enterprise Java applications, and presents practical tuning parameters and architectural considerations to mitigate performance bottlenecks in production environments.

JVMJavaMemory Tuning
0 likes · 18 min read
Understanding JVM Performance Limits and Tuning Strategies
MaGe Linux Operations
MaGe Linux Operations
Jul 16, 2014 · Cloud Computing

Why Modern Cloud Storage Is Getting So Complex—and How Qiniu Solved It

From the evolution of single‑machine file systems to today’s distributed, erasure‑coded cloud storage, this article examines why storage has become increasingly complex, the limitations of traditional replication, and how Qiniu’s next‑gen architecture leverages EC, faster repairs, and cost reductions to meet scalability, reliability, and availability demands.

Cloud Storageerasure codingreliability
0 likes · 15 min read
Why Modern Cloud Storage Is Getting So Complex—and How Qiniu Solved It
Baidu Tech Salon
Baidu Tech Salon
Jun 9, 2014 · Game Development

Build vs Buy: Key Considerations for Mobile Game Backend Development

When deciding whether to build or buy a mobile game backend, evaluate the backend’s impact on gameplay, your team’s expertise and resource availability, the long‑term maintenance and update commitments, risk tolerance, and budget constraints to choose the most scalable, cost‑effective solution.

Game Backendbackend architecturebackend provider
0 likes · 9 min read
Build vs Buy: Key Considerations for Mobile Game Backend Development
Baidu Tech Salon
Baidu Tech Salon
Apr 29, 2014 · Backend Development

Evolution of Web Architecture: From Single‑Server Sites to Distributed Multi‑Machine Systems

The article traces web architecture’s evolution from simple single‑server Java/JSP sites through memory caching, load‑balanced multi‑machine logic, read/write separation, master‑slave replication or message‑queue syncing, horizontal/vertical sharding, and finally multi‑server web‑server deployments behind load balancers to achieve scalability and reliability.

cachingdatabase shardingdistributed systems
0 likes · 25 min read
Evolution of Web Architecture: From Single‑Server Sites to Distributed Multi‑Machine Systems