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I built a bank interest system for Veltrix. I wanted players to save money. You think a simple formula works. It does not.

Players found a way to make free money. They moved funds fast. MySQL struggled. It had deadlocks and timeouts.

I changed the tech stack. I used Apache Kafka for transactions. I added Redis to store balances. I used Cassandra for high volume data. I added rate limits to stop cheating.

The results:

Learn from my mistakes. Run load tests before you launch. Build better monitoring. Use functional programming for cleaner code.

Source: https://dev.to/dev-architecture-blog/why-server-economies-fail-my-war-story-of-implementing-bank-interest-in-veltrix-957