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FLAGSHIP ARCHITECTURE GUIDE Cloud & DevOps 9 min read • Senior / Lead Architect

Senior Full-Stack & System Design Interview Primer: Caching, Sharding, Rate Limiting & CQRS

Everything you need to confidently scale systems from 1,000 to 10 million daily active users: database sharding strategies, token bucket rate limiters, and CQRS event patterns.

✓ Horizontal database sharding keys and cross-shard join avoidance
✓ Token bucket and leaky bucket algorithms implemented in Redis
✓ Decoupling read and write models with Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS)
✓ Graceful degradation and circuit breaker patterns with Resilience4j
#System Design #Rate Limiting #Database Sharding #CQRS #Cloud Scalability
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