Do you know those 8 common problems in large-scale production systems and their solutions? Time to test your skills!

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.

Over to you: What other common problems and solutions have you seen?

Credits

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