8 common problems in large-scale production systems

"When we talk about production systems, it's performance-first. Features make very little sense if performance is poor.

Do you know those 8 common problems in large-scale production systems and their solutions?

1 - Read-Heavy System: Use caching to make the reads faster.

2 - High-Write Traffic:

Use async workers to process the writes;

Use databases powered by LSM-Trees

3 - Single Point of Failure: Implement redundancy and failover mechanisms for critical components like databases.

4 - High Availability

Use load balancing to ensure that requests go to healthy server instances.

Use database replication to improve durability and availability.

5 - High Latency: Use a content delivery network to reduce latency

6 - Handling Large Files: Use block storage and object storage to handle large files and complex data.

7 - Monitoring and Alerting: Use a centralized logging system using something like the ELK stack.

8 - Slower Database Queries

Use proper indexes to optimize queries.

Use sharding to scale the database horizontally.

ABN focuses a lot on performance. Our system are often invested with optimization and self-healing techniques, where possible."

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