Scalability Patterns: Best Practices for Designing High Volume Websites

© Chander Dhall 2018

Chander DhallScalability Patternshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-1073-4_3

3. Scaling – Advanced Concepts

Chander Dhall¹ 

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Austin, Texas, USA

 

In this Chapter we build on the SPOFs discovered previously and make our architecture better. Concepts like caching, partitioning and scaling are discussed in detail. If you remember the figure from the previous chapter (Figure 3-1), you might recall that we have two single points of failure (SPOF). In this case, we had the database and the load balancer as the SPOFs.

Figure 3-1

Horizontally scaled app servers with a load balancer and a relational database

However, we later looked at eliminating ...