Loading data from the database every time user makes a similar request can increase the API response time. In such cases Cache can be used. What is a Cache? Cache is a temporary data storage layer which is much faster than database. Cache works like map, which has a key and value every time you […]
In order to handle server failover, we learnt about Load Balancer and how shifts traffic from one server to another. The same situation can happen for database also what if your database goes down? How are you going to handle this situation? Similar to multiple servers inside Database also we have multiple instances or database
In this post we’ll learn about ways of scaling our system and importance of Load Balancer. You can scale your applications in two ways: Pre-read link Vertical Scaling Horizontal Scaling 1. Vertical scaling is referred as “scale up”, which means the process of adding more resources (CPU/Memory) to your servers. Horizontal scaling is referred as
If you’re planning to build a complex network you need to first start small one step at a time. To start small something simple we will talk about single server setup in this post. Request flow from User to the web server: As the scale of your service or application increases i.e. more and more
