by Erik Bransberg | Dec 6, 2017 | Web Scale
Scaling databases today can take two approaches. The first and simplest is vertical scaling which relies on larger database servers to process more requests in parallel. While simple to implement, this approach eventually reaches a limit, either due to disk or...
by Erik Bransberg | Mar 1, 2017 | Performance, Web Scale
In working with various cache vendors over the years, I’ve come to realize that one of the more important questions isn’t what content you can cache, but which content you should NOT cache. This may seem an odd question–shouldn’t you always...
by Roland Lee | Jul 25, 2016 | Web Scale
Challenge Over the last 15 years, web load balancers have been deployed to scale web applications. Web load balancers eventually became a requirement for any application networking build out. As web traffic demands increased, it was apparent that the database tier was...
