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Explore eight essential strategies for building scalable systems, such as stateless services, horizontal scaling, load balancing, auto-scaling, caching, database replication, database sharding, and asynchronous processing. These techniques ensure systems can handle increased loads efficiently without compromising performance or user experience.

8 Must-Know Strategies to Build Scalable Systems

Let’s also acknowledge that all of these strategies also come at a cost of increased complexity and literal cost to operate (money).

Very good article taking as starting point. As <a href="https://app.daily.dev/jsnelders" data-mention-id="sqA5zH37twaFFhQg9c2h2" data-mention-username="jsnelders">@jsnelders</a> rightly mentioned, it all comes at cost but I think these things needs to be done when you have huge volume of data and traffic and when that happens, cost plays secondary role.

Thank you!
It was interesting and insightful

This is missing a crucial piece: Logging. It’s fine and dainty to make a stateless architecture, using all the tools in the toolbox. However if you don’t do logging, preferably with a trail across the architecture, it will become very difficult ult to figure out issues in this expansive setup.
Also this post was incredibly surface level. Why not go into depth on when each tool is applicable, when stateless is a hindrance, when caching is overkill etc?