What Database Scaling Looks Like When Milliseconds Mean Millions

Posted on Sat 01 November 2025 | Part 3 of Distributed Systems in Finance

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Financial systems process billions of time-series data points with sub-millisecond query requirements: constraints that break traditional databases.

Learn the architectural patterns that actually work: vertical scaling strategies, intelligent sharding schemes, and why market data demands different trade-offs than web applications.


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