Essay 5 sections
Is Your Data Really Big, or Just Badly Modeled?
Most big-data problems are really bad modeling or a missing index; before moving to a distributed system, ask whether the data is actually big
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Read/Write Splitting: Separating Read and Write Load
Before scaling up the database: moving read traffic to replicas, the traps replication lag creates, and when you actually need it
- System 9 sections
Scale Breaking Points in Data-Intensive Systems
As data load grows, where does boring architecture break? Working set, read replicas, partitioning, write load, a separate data layer — in order.