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.

1 - Stateless Services

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

2 - Horizontal Scaling

Add more servers so that the workload can be shared.

3 - Load Balancing

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

4 - Auto Scaling

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

5 - Caching

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

6 - Database Replication

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

7 - Database Sharding

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

8 - Async Processing

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

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