How to Handle 1 Million Requests Per Second in Node.js | System Design & Scaling Explained
In this deep-dive backend engineering tutorial, I explain how to scale a Node.js application to handle massive traffic using real-world system design principles.
What You’ll Learn in This Video:
✔ How Node.js Event Loop actually works
✔ Cluster mode & multi-core scaling
✔ Load balancing with NGINX
✔ Horizontal scaling using Docker & Kubernetes
✔ High-performance caching using Redis
✔ CDN optimization with Cloudflare
✔ Database scaling strategies (Sharding, Replicas, Indexing)
✔ Using message queues like Apache Kafka
✔ Avoiding event loop blocking
✔ Real distributed system architecture breakdown