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Simple, practical guide to the first and often-most-used approach to scaling: making copies of what works. No PhD required — just common sense, a few engineering patterns, and awareness of the pitfalls.By Your Friendly Engineer · Part 1 in a short series on practicalscalability. Acloneis simply anot

Caches can exist on the client (OS or browser), on the server, or in a dedicated cache layer. Content delivery networks (CDNs) act as distributed caches to improve performance and availability. Reverse proxies and caching servers like Varnish can serve static and dynamic content directly. Web server

Scalability is the ability of a system to handle increased load — such as more users, data, or requests — without unacceptable performance degradation. It can be achieved in two main ways: It also includes operational, cost, and development scalability — how the system, budget, and team scale with g

Modern software systems must handle rapid growth, unpredictable load, and unexpected failures — all without compromising user experience. Three key pillars define such systems:scalability,availability, andstability. Each comes with its own design patterns and trade-offs that engineers use to build r