
Smooth Scaling: System Design for High Traffic focuses on all things scalability, reliability, and performance. Tune in for expert advice on how to scale systems, control costs, boost availability, optimize performance, and get the most out of your tech stack. Host Jose Quaresma is the VP Customer Experience & Solutions at Queue-it, working on the frontlines with some of the world’s biggest busine... more
| Publishes | Monthly | Episodes | 25 | Founded | a year ago |
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Klaus Koefoed spent more than 25 years in IT services and consultancy, at Capgemini, Deloitte, and Accenture, before taking over as CEO of T-Systems in Northern Europe. In this episode of the Smooth Scaling Podcast, Klaus walks host Jose Quaresma thr... more
Sam Dhar has spent 14 years building infrastructure at Cisco, Amazon Alexa, and Adobe, and now works as Senior Staff Engineer and AI infrastructure leader at Galileo, the enterprise AI evaluation platform. In this episode of the Smooth Scaling Podcas... more
Chris Nesbitt-Smith has been running Kubernetes in production since version 0.4 — long before pods, before managed services, before most of today's tooling existed. In this episode of Smooth Scaling, he sits down with José Quaresma to share what a de... more
In this episode, José Quaresma sits down with two Queue-it engineers — Zaigham Sarfaraz, Engineering Manager, and Šimon Bučko, Senior Software Engineer — to talk autoscaling in production. They cover the fundamentals of horizontal and vertical scalin... more
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A deep-diberse deep-dive show focused on scalability, reliability, and performance for high-traffic systems. Episodes typically explore practical architecture patterns, cost controls, and real-world lessons from enterprise-scale deployments, including queueing, autoscaling, observability, and data-heavy infrastructure. Notable angles include cloud-native design, event-driven and MACH architectures, and strategies for handling massive traffic surges with a blend of hands-on engineering detail and business impact. A standout trait is the sustained emphasis on reliability at scale through concrete case studies and industry-aligned best practices, making it valuable for engineers, platform teams, and technical leaders evaluating or sponsoring s... more
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