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SCALER POD 05 ft. Kailash Nadh, CTO Zerodha | Side Projects, Hacker Culture and Scaling with Sense

Scaler Pod - The Software Engineer's Podcast

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Using Modularity to Scale Your Architecture

If you are going to build something for a hundred million users, or ten million uses on day one, your entire architecture will focus so much on those invisible ghosts and problems. So keeping things modeller is also an important factor when you design softer. And speaking of modellarity, we also touch id upon risk earlier, where people think that every system has to be hundred percent up all the time. That's never the case. We should allow moduls to fail gracefully for worse case scenarios. For example, on a trading platform, not all features are equally important.

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