21.2. Backend Scaling and Performance Engineering: Part-2
The Part-2 of a comprehensive guide to scaling and performance for backend engineers.
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We cover:
Statelessness & Horizontal Scaling
Load Balancers & Algorithms
Database Scaling (Read Replicas, Sharding)
CDNs & Edge Computing
Asynchronous Processing
Microservices vs Monolith
Serverless Computing
Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction & Recap
0:43 Statelessness: The Key to Horizontal Scaling
9:11 Load Balancers & Algorithms
27:47 Database Scaling (Read Replicas & Sharding)
51:22 Content Delivery Networks (CDNs)
1:05:03 Edge Computing
1:13:25 Asynchronous Processing & Background Jobs
1:30:43 Microservices vs Monolith
1:44:09 Serverless Computing
2:10:47 Key Takeaways & Mental Models
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