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Scalability Patterns: Growing Your Application
Scale applications effectively. Horizontal scaling, caching strategies, and performance patterns.
Sunny 14 min readFebruary 24, 2025
Scalability Fundamentals
Design systems that grow with demand.
Scaling Types
Vertical
- Bigger machines
- Simple but limited
Horizontal
- More machines
- Requires statelessness
Caching Strategies
Application Cache
- In-memory (Redis)
- Distributed cache
CDN
- Static assets
- Edge caching
Database Cache
- Query cache
- Result cache
Database Scaling
- Read replicas
- Sharding
- Partitioning
- Connection pooling
Async Processing
- Message queues
- Background jobs
- Event-driven
Monitoring
- Metrics
- Alerts
- Capacity planning
Conclusion
Scalability requires planning but not premature optimization.
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