Posts tagged “scalability”

What Do Reliability, Scalability, and Maintainability Mean?

Definitions of the three concerns that shape good software, and what each one asks of your system.

Micro-services vs Monolith Architecture

micro services vs monolith architecture

Loose Coupling Basics

What coupling between components actually measures, and why loosely coupled services are easier to change and scale.

Scalability For Beginners

What scalability really means, including the half everyone forgets: scaling back down when traffic falls.

Keep your front-end servers stateless to make them scalable

Why storing user state on front-end servers breaks once a load balancer is involved, and where that state belongs instead.