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Why Netflix Moved from a Monolith to Microservices: A Comprehensive Analysis of Scalability, Resilience, and Innovation at Global Scale

Netflix moved from a monolithic architecture to microservices to fix scalability issues, single points of failure, and slow innovation as streaming demand grew. The original unified codebase faced a major 2008 outage, inefficient scaling, tight coupling, and slow deployments. By migrating to AWS and creating independent services, it enabled targeted scaling, fault isolation, and faster deployments.

Jul 23, 20268 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 →