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Everyone can build it. Almost no one can afford to run it at scale. And the companies selling the picks and shovels are about to get undercut by the same forces they unleashed. by VEKTOR Memory — 20 min read How This Article Started: 20 Forums, 40 Headlines, and a Growing Sense That Everyone Was Con
The Problem We Were Actually Solving I still remember the day our server started to stall at the first growth inflection point, it was like watching a sports car hit a speed bump - all that power and potential, but suddenly struggling to move forward. Our team had been working on a treasure hunt eng
The Problem We Were Actually Solving We had built the Treasure Hunt Engine to power in-game treasure hunts that reward players for exploring content. At 100 000 active players it felt fast. At 500 000 it started to stutter. The operator documentation told teams to set max_reindexing_concurrency = 2
The Problem We Were Actually Solving I was tasked with configuring a treasure hunt engine for a large-scale online game, where thousands of users would be interacting with the system simultaneously. The goal was to ensure the long-term health of our servers, while also providing a seamless experienc
The Problem We Were Actually Solving I was tasked with ensuring our treasure hunt engine could scale to meet the demands of our player base, which had been growing exponentially since the launch of our game. The engine was responsible for generating random treasure hunts, and it was clear that our c
Generic tech DD templates miss what actually kills deals in 2026: AI claims that aren't production-grade, architecture that won't survive 2× traffic, and eng teams that look senior on LinkedIn but can't ship. This checklist is what I use when doing independent engineering due diligence for VCs and a
The Problem We Were Actually Solving The problem wasn't just about handling a million events; it was about providing a seamless experience for our players, while also ensuring that our back-end system could scale horizontally. Our initial requirements seemed simple enough: process events, update the
