How to Build a High-Load Prediction Market Architecture (Web3 / Polymarket Engine Case Study)
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Prediction markets like Polymarket are experiencing unprecedented global traffic spikes. For a backend engineer, building a platform where thousands of users concurrently buy, sell, and trade shares on real-world outcomes is a serious architectural challenge. If you try to build this using traditional sports-betting logic or heavy framework wrappers, your RPC nodes will choke, and your database will suffer from catastrophic race conditions. In this deep dive, we’ll analyze how to design a hig