📚 Digital Insights & Tech Adventures

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Welcome to my digital lair's knowledge repository. Here you'll find insights, tutorials, and thoughts on software engineering, cybersecurity, and system optimization.

TCP Connections Are Expensive: Optimizing Database Performance in a Distributed System at Rise

January 16, 2025 by Ridwan Taiwo

#distributed-systems #database #tcp #connections #performance-optimizations

In distributed systems, TCP connections are the backbone of communication between services and databases. In this post, I gave an account of a bottleneck we faced when dealing with a high volume of database connection / writes when processing stocks returns at Rise.

API Stability and Backwards Compatibility at Rise

July 13, 2024 by Ridwan Taiwo

#api #distributed-systems #system-architecture #startup

API stability and backwards compatibility is a very important thing to keep in mind when building systems. In this post, I went into what we did at Rise in the early years to attain this as well as the challenges we faced.

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