Your website is slow but you’re not sure why. You do know that it’s impacting your business. Are you losing customers to the competition? It happens if the website is not scaled properly. Scalability is the key to overcome this problem. But you must need some tips for scalability. In this guide, we are going…
In the past two years, we’ve written a ton of material on scalability. Here are the greatest hits… Why Generalists Are Better at Scaling the Web The internet stack is a complex infrastructure of interlocking components. An scalability engineer must be adept at Linux, plus webservers, caching servers, search servers, automation services, and relational databases…
If you run MySQL as your backend datastore is there one thing you can do to improve performance across the application? Those SQL queries are surely key. And the quickest way to find the culprits is to regularly analyze your log. I’ve put together a howto & script for doing this on Amazon RDS. Automate mysql…
In the constantly evolving world of cloud computing, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has established itself as a pioneer. It is now offering businesses unparalleled levels of performance and scalability. Among the many features and services provided by AWS, Amazon Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) and Elastic Block Storage (EBS) stand out as the leader in achieving…
Recently at Surge 2011, the annual conference on scalability and performance, Google’s CIO Ben Fried gave an illuminating keynote address. His main insight was that generalists are the people that will lead engineering teams in successfully scaling the web. In a world where the badge of Specialist or Expert is prized, this was a refreshing perspective from an…
As the number of mobile users and the complexity of mobile applications are constantly growing, one critical aspect that app developers and businesses must consider is “Mobile Scalability”. Mobile scalability refers to the ability of a mobile application or system to handle a growing number of users and increase data volumes without losing its performance…
With the increasing data and user demand, ensuring the scalability of your MySQL database has become crucial to maintain optimal performance. With this, you can handle growing amounts of data, traffic, and user requests with your database in MySQL. But how to boost MySQL scalability? This is the most trending question among MySQL users and…
Deploying in the Amazon cloud is touted as a great way to achieve high scalability while paying only for the computing power you use. How do you get the best scalability from the technology? In this article, we have explained three ways to boost your cloud scalability. Let’s explore them below. 3 Ways to Boost…
Scalability should be the primary concern in the ever-evolving landscape of technology and business. It helps increase the ability of the system without decreasing the performance. Previously, we have discussed 5 things toxic to scalability. In this article, we will go deeper into five more things that can pose a threat to scalability. Let’s explore…