TiDB is a prime example of an intrinsically scalable and reliable distributed SQL database architecture. Here’s how it works. In the good old days, databases had a relatively simple job: help with the ...

Enterprise architecture works best today when it borrows start-up habits — testing fast, learning quickly and scaling what actually delivers value.

Scale is a term that has dominated the architectural profession for as long as built structures have existed. In the literal sense, scale defines the measurable standards that we have come to know and ...

As tragic as they may be, crises often foster adaptability and resilience. In architecture, they challenge professionals to adapt their production to smaller and less frequent orders. That is the case ...

Alongside this Yelp example, there are several other examples that echo or implement similar design patterns to what Yelp described in its "S3 server-access logs at scale" architecture.

Retrieval-augmented generation breaks at scale because organizations treat it like an LLM feature rather than a platform discipline. Enterprises that succeed with RAG rely on a layered architecture.