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horizontal scaling

Name: WalletD wallet infrastructure
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Architecture diagram showing payment traffic at 2,600 per second moving through horizontally scalable stateless compute, a removed write-path contention point, and a healthy ledger database at about half capacity, with all payments committed and zero hard or ledger failures.

EngineeringAug 27, 20264 min read

We pushed our ledger until something broke. It wasn't the ledger.

We kept driving the payment path until we found the next limit, removed a database contention point, and left the ledger database running at about half capacity at peak.

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