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How iLovePDF Reduces Infrastructure Costs: The Engineering Behind Its Low-Cost PDF Platform

Millions of PDFs are processed through iLovePDF every day, yet the platform remains fast, reliable, and surprisingly cost-efficient. This article explores the engineering decisions behind that efficiency, from hybrid cloud infrastructure and temporary file storage to load balancing, smart processing pipelines, CDNs, and feature gating. Learn how iLovePDF minimizes infrastructure costs while delivering a seamless experience to millions of users worldwide.

Jul 17, 202616 min readRead →

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How Telegram Talks to a Billion People at Once (Without Falling Over)

Telegram moves billions of messages a day across a custom-built backend that skips most of the standard cloud playbook – no managed databases, no conventional load balancers, just a purpose-built protocol and a web of data centres designed so no single failure takes the system down. This piece breaks down exactly how that architecture works, from home data centres and message routing to why a famously small engineering team has been enough to keep it all running.

Jul 12, 20269 min readRead →