Designing Configuration for Scalable Treasure Hunts
Lillian Dube
The Problem We Were Actually Solving At Veltrix, we're known for our real-time treasure hunts – a complex feature that involves querying a massive graph database, processing high-frequency event streams, and returning results in under 100ms. However, when we started to onboard more clients and scale our infrastructure, our operators consistently hit the same problem: configuring the system to handle the increased load became a nightmare. Our documentation, which followed the traditional approach