A Tale from Database Performance at Scale

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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.

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