Ultra-Scale Metadata Storage for Video Streaming

Ultra-Scale Metadata Storage for Video Streaming

Design a highly-available metadata storage system for a global video streaming platform with 100M+ DAUs. The system must handle massive write loads for watch progress tracking (1M+ events/sec) and provide low-latency access to the content catalog. Specifically, address how you would scale a relational database architecture (Postgres-based) to meet these requirements while handling connection management, data partitioning, and write-heavy bottlenecks. Discuss the trade-offs between consistency and performance for playback features.
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