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Engineering, Backend

How Uber Conquered Database Overload: The Journey from Static Rate-Limiting to Intelligent Load Management

🧠 Overload in stateful databases isn’t one-dimensional. See how we built an intelligent load manager that sheds smarter, adapts to diverse signals, and stays fair under pressure. Even better, this approach led to a ~70% reduction in P99 latency.

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