System Design Patterns: From Fundamentals to Real Systems

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Introduction

Growing Under Load: How to Read This Module

The storage module scaled the database. The caching module took the read pressure off it. This module scales everything else: the application servers, the traffic between them, and the machinery that decides how many of everything should exist at 3 AM versus 3 PM.

It's also the module where the five questions' last question, how does it grow?, gets its full answer. And the answer starts with a confession: "scaling" has a glamour problem

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