EDUCATION & TRAINING
The Illusion of Scalability
Dev.to Machine Learning
About This Tutorial
The Problem We Were Actually Solving Looking back, I realize that our focus was misplaced. We were trying to build a system that would seamlessly handle multiple concurrent users, optimizing every last CPU cycle and memory allocation. What we failed to consider was the elephant in the room: network latency. In our haste to show off our creation, we ignored the age-old problem of how we would handle the inevitable delays in user interactions. As a result, our system crashed under the weight of its own scalability.