scalability

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AI NewsDatabasesScalability

Scaling PostgreSQL to power 800 million ChatGPT users

OpenAI scaled a single PostgreSQL instance with nearly 50 read replicas to reliably support 800 million ChatGPT users and millions of queries per second.

Jan 22, 2026

distributed-systemssystem-designsoftware-engineering

Building Systems That Don't Fall Apart: Reliability, Scalability, and Maintainability

A practical guide to the three pillars of distributed systems design. Learn how to handle hardware failures, scale past 10,000 users, and avoid building unmaintainable legacy code from day one.

Jan 11, 2026

AI NewsScalabilityRust

💡 Core Challenges of Scalability: A Framework Performance Comparison

A performance comparison reveals Hyperlane achieves 334,888.27 QPS in a monolithic architecture, outperforming Node.js by 2.4x.

Jan 4, 2026

AI NewsAPI DesignScalability

Designing Scalable Backend APIs: Building for Growth and Resilience

This article details key principles for designing scalable backend APIs, emphasizing the shift from monolithic architectures to microservices and the importance of observability.

Dec 28, 2025

AI NewsAPI DesignScalability

Designing Scalable Backend APIs: A Deep Dive

This article explores key principles for designing scalable backend APIs, emphasizing statelessness and asynchronous operations to handle increasing traffic and data volume.

Dec 23, 2025

AI NewsAI ArchitecturePlatform Engineering

Inside the Architectures Powering Modern AI Systems: QCon San Francisco 2025

QCon San Francisco 2025 focuses on real-world AI architecture challenges, featuring insights from Netflix, Meta, Intuit, and Anthropic on building scalable, reliable AI systems and infrastructure.

Oct 30, 2025