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couchdb

Scaling CouchDB to 1 Million Requests Per Minute (Part 1)

Apr 22, 2026 · 4 min read

A post where I detail the different challenges I've faced while scaling CouchDB.

The 64 KiB Pipe That Killed Our Database

Jun 7, 2026 · 10 min read

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Part 2 of the Scaling CouchDB to 1 Million Requests Per Minute series - The story of how a 64 KiB pipe between CouchDB and containerd led to OOM a production node.

The Database Connection Setting That Silently Throttles Your Writes

Sep 5, 2026 · 8 min read

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Diagram of a TCP receive buffer showing the receive window and buffered data

Part 3 of the Scaling CouchDB to 1 Million Requests Per Minute series - A config line about connection counts pinned our TCP receive window to 8,192 bytes, turning a single write into thousands of round trips.