Scale / Caching / Infra
Scaling a creator platform to 1M monthly users
Re-architecting the read path and caching layer so growth stopped translating into latency.
- Author
- Muhammad Farid Gul
- Published
- May 31, 2026
- Read
- 1 min
Confidential build. Visual artifacts available on request after NDA.
The brief
The client had a number that was moving the wrong way. We dug into why, scoped a fix we could ship in weeks not quarters, and built it.
What we built
A rebuilt critical path, measured before and after.
Instrumentation so the win is visible, not anecdotal.
A maintainable codebase their team can own.
The outcome
Shipped on schedule. The client now runs the product in production, and the metrics held up under real traffic. A clean handover: source in their repo, infra in their accounts.