Scalability Articles

System scaling challenges, distributed architecture patterns, and lessons from scaling real systems.

Lessons from Building a Sports Data Pipeline: When Cloud-Native Actually Works

November 2, 2025

Real-world lessons and architectural decisions from building an NFL data pipeline that ingests from SportRadar to BigQuery. Why I chose Apache Beam over Spark, when serverless made sense, and how cloud-native architecture solved problems I didn't expect.

Data-Engineering System-Architecture Scalability Technical-Leadership

November 2, 2025

When Scalability Breaks Reality: Lessons from Building the Odds Importer

November 1, 2025

I used to think scalability was the ultimate goal—that if a system could scale horizontally, it could handle anything. The Odds Importer taught me how data context can quietly destroy even the most perfectly designed distributed systems.

Scalability Data-Engineering System-Architecture Technical-Leadership Distributed-Systems

November 1, 2025