8 Must-Know Scalability Strategies

What do Amazon, Netflix, and Uber have in common? They are extremely good at scaling their system whenever needed.

Here are 8 must-know strategies to scale your system.

• Stateless Services

  Design stateless services because they don’t rely on server-specific data and are easier to scale.

• Horizontal Scaling

  Add more servers so that the workload can be shared.

• Load Balancing

  Use a load balancer to distribute incoming requests evenly across multiple servers.

• Auto Scaling

  Implement auto-scaling policies to adjust resources based on real-time traffic.

• Caching

  Use caching to reduce the load on the database and handle repetitive requests at scale.

• Database Replication

  Replicate data across multiple nodes to scale the read operations while improving redundancy.

• Database Sharding

  Distribute data across multiple instances to scale the writes as well as reads.

• Async Processing

  Move time-consuming and resource-intensive tasks to background workers using async processing to scale out new requests.