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Articles tagged with #backend
Imagine you're the engineer at Notion the week traffic doubles. The fix looks obvious: the single app server is maxed out, so you spin up nine more behind a load balancer. Ten instances instead of one
It's 2 AM and you're the engineer on call at Figma. A design team in Tokyo is running a late-night crunch session before a client demo, dozens of people editing the same file at once, dragging compone
Imagine you're the engineer on call for Uber's trip-matching service. It's a Friday night, surge pricing just kicked in across the city, and request volume triples in fifteen minutes. The service isn'
Imagine you're the engineer on call at Uber during a Friday night surge. Thousands of drivers are pinging their location every few seconds, and your location ingestion service is the front door for al
Imagine you're the backend engineer at Swiggy, working on the dispatch service that assigns incoming orders to nearby delivery partners. It's peak dinner hour. A restaurant marks an order ready for pi
Imagine you're the engineer on call for a payments platform. Every transaction your service authorizes has to pass through a fraud-check API before it clears. Most days that call returns in 150ms and
