Tag: leaderboard

All the articles with the tag "leaderboard".

• Breaking the 28k SSE Connection Limit (and Scaling Toward 1M)

  Updated: 23 Jul, 2026 |  at  05:30 AM

  Why my Go leaderboard's capped at exactly 28,232 SSE connections, how Docker networking got me to 150k, and the path toward millions.

• Building a scalable real time leaderboard

  Updated: 14 Nov, 2025 |  at  10:42 PM

  Describing my journey of building the leaderboard, what I learnt, what issues I faced, and some design decisions (which will be elaborated on later).

• Backpressure in Distributed Systems

  Updated: 23 Jul, 2026 |  at  05:30 AM

  Understanding what it is, how to deal with it, where it's used and how I handled it in the real time leaderboard.

• Broadcasting to 28K SSE Clients (and learning about Go channels)

  Updated: 23 Jul, 2026 |  at  05:30 AM

  A post on progressively getting my server to 28k SSE connections, finding a bug in my implementation of fan out using Go channels and the resulting mental model update.

• How I Shrunk My Docker Image size by 48x (and Cut Build Time in Half)

  Updated: 31 Jul, 2025 |  at  10:55 PM

  How to optimize (and benchmark) docker image builds for build time and image size.

• Scaling Server Sent Events - Intro to SSE and scaling guide

  Updated: 29 Jun, 2025 |  at  12:31 PM

  Understanding SSE and it's use cases, advantages over other realtime protocols, how to deploy it at scale.