Tag: leaderboard

All the articles with the tag "leaderboard".

• Building a scalable real time leaderboard

  Updated: 7 Oct, 2025 |  at  04:22 PM

  Describing my journey of building the leaderboard, what I learnt, what issues I faced, and some design decisions (which will be elaborated on later).

• Backpressure in Distributed Systems

  Updated: 7 Oct, 2025 |  at  04:22 PM

  Understanding what it is, how to deal with it, where it's used and how I handled it in the real time leaderboard.

• 28K+ connections, zero messages

  Updated: 28 Aug, 2025 |  at  04:30 PM

  How I learnt about Go's concurrency patterns the hard way.

• How I Shrunk My Docker Image size by 48x (and Cut Build Time in Half)

  Updated: 31 Jul, 2025 |  at  10:55 PM

  How to optimize (and benchmark) docker image builds for build time and image size.

• Scaling Server Sent Events - A practical guide to 28,000+ concurrent connections

  Updated: 29 Jun, 2025 |  at  12:31 PM

  Understanding Server Sent events and it's use cases, advantages over other realtime protocols.