Needs advice
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RedisRedis

I'm building a website where users can participate, like and dislike any given challenge.

Problem : If 10k or 1 million users join the given challenge at a time it can cause a race condition in my database MySQL and in also Redis.

What I want : Aggregating joined participated users, likes and dislikes.

Solution : I'm thinking about using Kafka as a Queue message broker then users event one by one saving into Redis, database and aggregate them.

One problem is also here saving and doing aggregate takes time now; how can I show users they have successfully joined the challenge?

One solution is that when a user joins the challenge I send a request to the Kafka queue then update the current user UI and show a success message (not updating the other users' joined messages to current user because I am not using Websockets)

Other App example Take the same example of https://stackshare.io posts. On posts users can like, dislike and comments.

Estimated users : 1 million Stack : Django, Mysql, Redis and Kafka

Questions

  • How I can manage these kinds of things?
  • How do big tech companies handle this?
  • Where am I right or wrong?
  • Are there other tools that can help me in this situation?
  • I am using locks in Redis when total like, dislike and joined users increment or decrement. Should I be doing this? Is it the same for transactions in MySQL?

I need the best approach to handle this situation that can also be scalable.

Thanks in advance for reading my post and giving me suggestions on this. ☺️

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