Episodes tagged with "Scaling"

Don’t chase complexity. This fintech unicorn built a $1.7B company on a Python/Postgres monolith, scaling to billions of requests a month. Learn why simple, boring architecture wins and where they spend their complexity budget instead.

Your app is taking off, but is your database keeping up? We break down essential scaling techniques – from clever indexing and materialized views to replication and sharding. Learn how to identify bottlenecks and choose the right strategy to keep your data performant and available, without prematurely over-engineering.