We Serve Millions of Requests on a Single VM
10 months ago
- #scalability
- #web-development
- #performance-optimization
- Use battle-tested technologies like Nginx, Redis, PostgreSQL, Debian, and Flask to save time and avoid bugs.
- Aggressive caching can significantly reduce network request times, especially for static data.
- Implement asynchronous programming for tasks exceeding 500 ms to maintain user responsiveness.
- Flat and simple data models improve both engineering speed and application performance.
- Avoid ORMs to prevent complex and potentially buggy database queries; use compile-time SQL checks instead.