▸ Blog series
Performance and Limits
Diagnose the real bottleneck, cut the distance with edge delivery and caching, then cap the traffic before it caps you.
- 01
Bandwidth vs throughput: a wider pipe won't fix lag
Bandwidth is capacity, throughput is delivery. Why a wider pipe never fixes a throughput bottleneck, and the latency and protocol levers that do.
DevOps · 8 min read - 02
CDN vs cache: why your high-traffic site needs both
CDN and cache solve different problems: distance vs repeated work. How to layer edge delivery and server-side caching for high-traffic sites.
DevOps · 7 min read - 03
Rate limiting vs throttling
The engineering difference between rate limiting and throttling, and how each secures your APIs and keeps infrastructure stable under heavy load.
DevOps · 8 min read