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Highload • March 29, 2026 • 13 min read

Scaling a Java Backend — Production Lessons from a Real Migration

A walkthrough of taking a monolithic Java backend through the scaling journey — what we changed at each stage, what broke, and the concrete decisions that moved the needle when traffic grew 50×.

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Highload • January 11, 2024 • 4 min read

Postgres at Scale — How Far You Can Push a Single Node

The optimizations that let one Postgres instance handle tens of thousands of transactions per second, and the signs that it's time to think beyond a single node.

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