How We Scaled Nigeria's Social Commerce Platform to 100K Users (And The Architecture That Almost Broke)
I still remember the night our server cras...
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Thanks for the explanations, this is a learning experience.
I'd just say that the architectural decisions are not because in Node you have to build "everything from scratch" but it seems to me rather a more general expertise of your team (or yourself in Laravel).
There are equivalents in Node, for instance you can use Prisma in Node which is similar to Eloquent ORM
prisma.io/docs/getting-started/pri...
Same for authentication, queues, broadcasting, if you know the right tools you don't need to build anything from scratch.
Great point, Federico. You are right, it's less about Node limitations and more about our team's Laravel expertise.
We chose speed over learning curve. For a startup, leveraging what we knew deeply meant we could build faster and debug more confidently.
Prisma looks interesting, thanks for the recommendation.
Appreciate the thoughtful engagement.
This is both inspiring and educational. Thank you. I'd like to reach out and learn more about your platform. I've sent a follow on X as Rolex.devv
Thanks, Rowland. Just followed you back on X as @onoja55.
Would love to connect - always happy to chat about the tech stack, scaling challenges, or the Nigerian market. Feel free to DM or email me.
Tks for sharing!
Appreciate it, Caramelo! Glad you found it worth sharing.
Good!
Thanks. Appreciate you reading it
Brilliant, great write-up ... good and smart architectural choices - Laravel, MySQL, Redis - hosting on a VPS, rather than suffering the complexity of AWS - "KISS" principle! :-)
And solving real problems for real users, instead of just riding the latest tech "hype" bandwagon - very thoughtful, very inspiring - bookmarked this!
Really appreciate that @leob, thank you.🙌
You totally got the vibe. Keep it simple, solve real problems, and don’t overcomplicate things.
Thanks, inspiring story - great vision and great execution beat the "tech hype" anytime!
Many thanks.