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The Architecture Nobody Talks About: How I Built Systems That Actually Scale (And Why Most Don't)

TheBitForge on November 17, 2025

The Architecture Nobody Talks About: How I Built Systems That Actually Scale (And Why Most Don't) Let me tell you about the worst production incid...
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John Harding

This is a great article. Very thorough and with useful examples - thanks.

Two very minor quibbles:

1) I think what you're imparting is wisdom/experience not just knowledge. Wisdom is what you gain with the experiences of applying your knowledge in the real world. I think it's important to start distinguishing - because wisdom in general has a higher value than knowledge alone. And AI has vast knowledge but zero wisdom/experience

2) How did you know it was me that broke production?? 🙂

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TheBitForge

Thank You Sir ♥

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leob • Edited

Wow that's an eye-opener if there ever was one - this is stuff I've rarely seen ANYONE discuss, well at least not in this level of detail ...

This is the rare category of "stuff that's super important, but which for some unknown reason nobody ever talks about"!

@dev.to :-) can this post go in an upcoming "Top 7 dev.to posts of the week" article?

P.S. the only caveat that I have is: of course this architecture adds a LOT of complexity, and for "simple" systems which don't really need to "scale" that much it's probably overkill - I mean, these patterns should not just be applied "everywhere" without thought or consideration ...

Another thought I had while reading this: I feel that some of these "mechanisms" should be implemented at the "framework level" (if you use, let's say, Django, or Laravel) - the "application layer" wouldn't necessarily need to be aware of all of the details ...

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TheBitForge

Thank You ♥

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Michael N.

Thanks for the insightful article.

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TheBitForge

Thanks

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Nadeem Zia

Very cool

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TheBitForge

Thanks

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Pankaj Sharma

High-quality content! Thanks so much for sharing your in-depth experience with us — really appreciated! 🤝

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TheBitForge

Thank you ♥

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James Shisiah

What a great read for engineers! I will continue implementing some of this in the systems that I manage.

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TheBitForge

Thanks

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Meir Meir

This is brilliant thanks a lot

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TheBitForge

Thank You So Much ♥

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Reborn Lee

Great article and useful examples. Thanks for sharing :)

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TheBitForge

Thanks ♥

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Formula Bot

This is a great article, thanks.

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TheBitForge

Thank You

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Ramkumar L

Remember reading that Netflix stress tests it's system for lot of failure scenarios it predicts . Thats why Netflix rarely lags eventhough it streams such a huge load of data .

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Ok