/strong>. After carefully weighing <strong>cost, latency, throughput</strong>, and <strong>operational stability</strong>, we settled on a combination of:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Cassandra</strong> and <strong>Redis</strong> for storage</li>
<li><strong>gRPC + Proto3</strong> as our communication layer</li>
</ul>
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