Architectural Breakdown: I Tried to Beat Peter Norvig and Accidentally Became Ryan Gosling

I Tried to Beat Peter Norvig and Accidentally Became Ryan Gosling: Scaling a Meme to 10K RPS on 8GB RAM The internet moves fast. One moment you are a nobody with a cheese bread recipe, the next, Ryan Gosling’s Twitter fingers have turned your side project into a distributed systems stress test. This is how we survived 10,000 requests per second on...