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Scalability Patterns: Growing Your Application

Scale applications effectively. Horizontal scaling, caching strategies, and performance patterns.

Rottawhite Team14 min readFebruary 24, 2025
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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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