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A brief overview distinguishing data-intensive applications (like Instagram) from compute-intensive applications (like weather simulations or games). Data-intensive apps are bottlenecked by reading/writing large amounts of data and can be scaled using caching, database sharding, and replication. Compute-intensive apps are bottlenecked by heavy calculations and require more CPU or GPU power to scale, as database strategies are ineffective for computational workloads.

Data-Intensive, Compute-Intensive Apps System Design