04.2.5 · Skill in Software architecture

Scalability

Handling more users, data or load without a rewrite.

Scalability is about knowing where the limits are and how to move them when needed. Premature scaling wastes time on problems the product does not have. Knowing the likely bottlenecks lets a team scale just in time.

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Resources

courseGo deeper
The system design primer ↗
Donne Martin · free guide
A broad, free tour of scaling techniques: caching, replication, queues, load balancing and their trade-offs.
bookGo deeper · Paid
Designing data-intensive applications ↗
Martin Kleppmann · 600 pages
The standard book on data systems, consistency and scale. Read it when a product's data starts to hurt.

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