Geo-Distribution and Multi-Region Design in Distributed Systems
Distributed Systems Series — Part 5.9: Scalability & Performance When Single-Region Is No Longer Sufficient Every scalability mechanism covered so far in Part 5 — partitioning, load balancing, caching, backpressure, indexing, autoscaling — operates within a single geographic region. These mechanisms collectively allow a system to handle enormous load within one region. But they cannot … Read more