How We Scaled a Volunteer Registration System to 20k QPS with Redis, RocketMQ, and MySQL
This article recounts how a volunteer registration platform was redesigned to meet extreme concurrency demands—handling up to 40k QPS and 20k TPS—by evaluating MySQL limits, adding Redis caching, integrating RocketMQ, applying fault‑recovery mechanisms, and iteratively optimizing through multiple load‑testing rounds.
