whoami I am Uddeshya Singh (X, Medium, LinkedIn), SDE-2 Backend at Gojek. I specialize in payments in my 9-5 and have been an avid distributed systems + database geek. more

At Gojek, we have a love-hate kinda relationship with document stores. In one such use case, the design of our entity model made sense that a document store (ahem, mongoDb) should be used. Now serving a write traffic of a whopping ~25k RPM, we were bound to hit a wall, and we ended up hitting a cache eviction wall. more