How Razorpay handled significant transaction bursts during events like IPL
Razorpay is India’s leading payment-gateway service that offers a suite of products to businesses to accept, process and disburse payments enabling them to establish an online presence. They dealt with an interesting problem: the problem of sudden transaction bursts during events such as the Indian…
Facebook’s photo storage architecture
Facebook built Haystack, an object storage system designed for storing photos on a large scale. The platform stores over 260 billion images which amounts to over 20 petabytes of data. One billion new photos are uploaded each week which is approx—60 terabytes of data. At…
Network file system – A deep dive
A network file system is a distributed file system protocol; an open protocol that specifies message formats regarding how a client and a server should communicate in a distributed environment. NFS being an open protocol enables third parties to write their own implementations of it….
Application Hosting – How PolyHaven Manages 5 Million Page Views and 80TB Traffic a Month for < $400
Polyhaven, a 3D asset library, recently provided insightful data on how they manage to serve 5 million page views a month, consuming a bandwidth of 80 terabytes just under 400 USD. If the same amount of traffic was served from AWS S3 object storage, that would cost more than 4K USD a month. So how do…
The Technology Upskill Mess For Application Developers
It’s been a few years since Oliver kicked off his career, as a full-stack Java developer, in this BigCorp. Inc. He learned quite a bit, primarily working on the backend: writing features, plumbing APIs, debugging code, fixing bugs, DENTTAL (Documentation, Exception Handling, Null pointers, Time complexity, Test coverage, Analysis of code…
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