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Gold Steady as Middle East Talks Weigh on Interest Rate Outlook

Gold moved in a narrow range as traders monitored talks in the Middle East for signs of progress that would ease pressure on the US Federal Reserve to raise interest rates.

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Designing a Backend System That Handles 100K Requests/Second (Without Melting Your Database)

TL;DR Architecture At high level: Global Traffic Routing (Geo DNS / Anycast) Edge Layer (CDN + WAF + Rate Limiting) Load Balancers (L4 + L7) Stateless App Tier (autoscaled microservices) Multi layer…

  • Capacity planning calculates 100,000 RPS with 2KB payload, 200MB egress/sec
  • Request flow uses CDN, WAF, L4/L7 load balancers, multi-layer caching
  • Database design employs stateless services, read replicas, sharding, async processing

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