by heimdalladmin | Aug 17, 2021 | GCP, Web Scale
Background Horizontally scaling your SQL database involves separating the write-master from read-only servers. This allows the write server to perform dedicated write operations while read queries are offloaded to separate replicas. However, this architecture may...
by heimdalladmin | Aug 17, 2021 | GCP, Web Scale
Application-database inefficiency (e.g. repeated queries, network latency) is a primary cause of performance bottlenecks. Query caching is used to improve database responsiveness and scale. But caching is not without its challenges; knowing what to cache and when to...