The application slowed down when the data has grown, the reports system failed beyond a certain volume of concurrent users, the new feature cannot be introduced without design level change or a simple bug fix needs hard coding rather than a well-developed fix. Every developer comes across these scenarios someday in their career and that’s when the scalability aspect of...
It's been a good long vacation nearing year-end, family, celebrations, outing… After the team is back to work, they notice the production web application is running on … neither 2 nor 4 instances but a whopping 10 instances! A hurried inspection shows auto-scaling kicked off as per the thresholds set by the team when the cloud infra was acquired....
A scalable web application is a key to success in today's competitive business environment. But building scalable web applications isn't easy. You need a solid understanding of how web hosting works and you need to know about many different technologies, including server configurations, software design, database design, and data modeling, security, load balancing, and failover configuration. Here is an article,...
