System Scalability Design

What You Will Learn

• 1 Learn the foundations of scalability including vertical and horizontal scaling dimensions.
• 2 Understand how to measure scalability with metrics like throughput, latency, and concurrency.
• 3 Apply scalable data management techniques such as sharding and replication.
• 4 Implement caching strategies to reduce load and improve response times.
• 5 Design load balancing and traffic distribution for high availability.
• 6 Build asynchronous processing and event-driven architectures.
• 7 Decompose monolithic systems into scalable microservices.
• 8 Scale databases with techniques like read replicas and connection pooling.
• 9 Apply distributed system patterns like bulkhead and circuit breaker.
• 10 Use monitoring and testing to ensure continuous scalability.