https://www.rik-kisnah.ai/tags/databases/Recent content in Databases on Rik Kisnah - BlogHugoenTue, 15 Sep 2020 09:00:00 -0700https://www.rik-kisnah.ai/teach/systems/scale-from-zero-to-millions-of-users/Tue, 15 Sep 2020 09:00:00 -0700https://www.rik-kisnah.ai/teach/systems/scale-from-zero-to-millions-of-users/Start with one machine. Add users until it hurts, fix the one thing that hurts, repeat. Ten rungs from a single box to a sharded, cached, multi-region system, and the reason each rung exists. Learn the ladder once and half the design round becomes recognising which rung you are standing on.