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System Design: Designing a Database Proxy for Sharding (Vitess Style)

System Design: Designing a Database Proxy for Sharding Scaling a relational database like MySQL or PostgreSQL is one of the hardest challenges in engineering. When a single database server can't handle the load, you must…

Apr 20, 20263 min read

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Database Connection Pool Tuning: HikariCP, PostgreSQL, and Traffic Spikes

Database connection pools look boring until they take production down. Most backend services do not fail because the database has zero capacity. They fail because the application opens too many connections, holds them to…

Apr 7, 20268 min read

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