A Tale from Database Performance at Scale

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A humorous yet insightful tale of database pitfalls, from costly overprovisioning to data loss, spikes, backups, and key scalability lessons.

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Patrick’s green fedora shop becomes a crash course in database performance. From overpaying for unused capacity to losing data, mishandling traffic spikes, and poorly timed backups, each blunder reveals vital lessons on workload analysis, scaling, observability, consistency, and maintenance scheduling in distributed systems.