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Awesome Scalability

A large reading index of performance, scalability, reliability, and real-world architecture case studies, useful for researching a specific bottleneck.

How to use it

  1. 01

    Distinguish slow single-request performance from behavior under growing load.

  2. 02

    Follow the original engineering case studies and inspect their constraints.

Keep in mind

Large-company examples can be informative while being inappropriate to reproduce in a smaller system. Linked content varies in age and access.

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Find one case study for your current bottleneck and list the differences between its workload and yours.

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