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8 Must-Know Scalability Strategies

30 minsScalabilitySystem Design
30 mins
1 sections
Scalability, System Design

Overview

What do Amazon, Netflix, and Uber have in common? They are extremely good at scaling their system whenever needed.

Here are 8 must-know strategies to scale your system.

  • Stateless Services

Design stateless services because they don’t rely on server-specific data and are easier to scale.

  • Horizontal Scaling

Add more servers so that the workload can be shared.

  • Load Balancing

Use a load balancer to distribute incoming requests evenly across multiple servers.

  • Auto Scaling

Implement auto-scaling policies to adjust resources based on real-time traffic.

  • Caching

Use caching to reduce the load on the database and handle repetitive requests at scale.

  • Database Replication

Replicate data across multiple nodes to scale the read operations while improving redundancy.

  • Database Sharding

Distribute data across multiple instances to scale the writes as well as reads.

  • Async Processing

Move time-consuming and resource-intensive tasks to background workers using async processing to scale out new requests.

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