Items tagged scaling in 2013
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What are some strategies for scaling sites & infrastructure so global response times are relatively close to US response times?
You need to run your application in multiple data centers around the world, partitioned such that an incoming HTTP request can be completely serviced by a single data center. Then you use global DNS load balancing to direct users to the data center that is closest to them.
[... 185 words]What’s the best material on scalability?
Cal Henderson’s book Building Scalable Websites offers a good grounding.
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