Stateless Design

Engineering Guidelines for Scalability and Performance

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Distributed Systems Series — Part 5.12: Scalability & Performance The End of the Beginning This is the forty-third and final post in a series that began with a simple question: what does it mean to build distributed systems correctly? Not just systems that work in development, not just systems that pass their tests, but systems … Read more

What Scalability Really Means in Distributed Systems

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Distributed Systems Series — Part 5.1: Scalability & Performance What Scalability Actually Means Parts 1 through 4 of this series established how distributed systems work correctly and survive failures. Part 5 addresses the final dimension: how do systems handle growth? Scalability is one of the most overused and least precisely defined terms in software engineering. … Read more