Every system design question has the same honest answer: 'it depends'. The skill is knowing what it depends…
Rohan Malhotra
Staff Engineer @ Orbitly | Distributed systems, Go, Postgres | Writing about architecture tradeoffs
Every system design question has the same honest answer: 'it depends'. The skill is knowing what it depends on.
Read/write ratio. Consistency requirements. Team size. Budget. What happens when it's down. Ask about these before drawing a single box.
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