Scaling a marketplace backend: lessons from production
Notes on indexes, queues and caching from running a two-sided marketplace at scale. Still a work in progress.
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This is a living draft — pinning down the patterns that kept our marketplace fast under load.
Topics to cover
- Hot-path indexes and query shapes
- Background jobs vs request-time work
- Cache invalidation that doesn't lie
#backend#scaling#postgres#queues