Production architecture for scaling NodeJS
So far, we have seen some different server setups and scaling concepts. In this section, we are going to explain how to incrementally scale a production application.
Phase 0 – one server
This server is usually used in development and low-traffic production applications. It starts with all the components in the same server:
Figure 7: Single server setup
This is the simplest setup possible, where everything (database, webserver, or an application) is on the same server.
Phase 1 – multiple application instances in one server
The next step is to add an additional application instance to be able to perform zero-downtime ...
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