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67. Design for Write Scale: A Million Writes a Second
A live TV vote at a million writes a second: spread by key, buffer in Kafka, aggregate the hot counter in two stages, shed what can wait.
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Distributed systems AWS DynamoDB Flink Kafka Scaling writes
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