Scaling: Part 3 — Minimising scaling headaches

Scaling: Part 3 — Minimising scaling headachesIn part one of this blog trilogy we introduced some scaling terminology, and in part two we looked at if it’s worth scaling your system at all, how delays in scaling can make it difficult to respond to sudden spikes of user traffic, how caching can reduce the amount you need to scale, and we touched on using managed services to let someone else take the reins on dealing with scaling. In this final part we’re going to look at how structuring our syste...

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