Most companies suffer from a serious problem that limits their growth, and most don’t even know it. By the time they find out, it’s costing them millions in missed opportunities for product progress. It’s an infrastructure bottleneck — the root cause of most major issues with online applications. It causes downstream outages. It slows, and […] The post From Outages to Velocity: Designing a Resilient, Elastic Data Layer with Distributed SQL appeared first on TiDB.| TiDB
Peak-moment failures are never polite. In 2015, Target’s website buckled on Cyber Monday while holiday carts sat idle. Delta canceled 1,300 flights when a single software outage rippled through critical systems. Analysts have shown that just 100 ms of extra latency trims roughly 1% of revenue, while Google observed a 20% traffic drop from a […] The post Why Legacy SQL Is a Scaling Time Bomb: How Distributed SQL Defuses Future Risks appeared first on TiDB.| TiDB