10 Best Articles on Scalability
The most useful articles on scalability from around the web—beginners to advanced—curated by thought leaders and our community. We focus on timeless pieces and update the list whenever we discover new, must-read articles or videos—make sure to bookmark and revisit this page.
Top 5 Scalability Articles
At a glance: these are the articles that have been most read, shared, and saved on scalability by Refind users in 2023 so far.
What is ...?
New to #scalability? These articles make an excellent introduction.
A Beginner's Guide to Scaling to 11 Million+ Users on Amazon's AWS
How do you scale a system from one user to more than 11 million users? Joel Williams , Amazon W...
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How to maintain engineering velocity as you scale
Faire’s engineering team grew from five to over 100 engineers in three years. Throughout this growth, we were able to sustain our pace of engineering execution by adhering to four guiding principles.
Short Articles
Short on time? Check out these useful short articles on scalability—all under 10 minutes.
Scaling Mastodon: The Compendium
This is honestly a very hastily written selection of various snippets, with text extracted, and notes. No real editing thought was put into this, so I hope it’s...
Tackling the Scalability Trilemma
The success of the IOST blockchain is an inseparable mixture of technological invention and community support. At the end of June we…
On the Scalability of Blockchains
Bitcoin and Ethereum, the most widely used blockchains, cannot currently support mainstream transaction usage. They are both supporting…
Long Articles
These are some of the most-read long-form articles on scalability.
The Limits to Blockchain Scalability
2021 May 23 See all posts Special thanks to Felix Lange, Martin Swende, Marius van der Wijden and Mark Tyneway for feedback and review. Just how far can you push the scalability of a blockchain? Can…
Netflix: What Happens When You Press Play?
This article is a chapter from my new book Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 . The first releas...
The WhatsApp Architecture Facebook Bought For $19 Billion
Rick Reed in an upcoming talk in March titled That's 'Billion' with a 'B': Scaling to the next ...
The human scalability of “DevOps”
As I recently wrote on Twitter, I’ve been spending a considerable amount of time lately thinking about the human scalability of “DevOps.”…
How Uber Scales Their Real-time Market Platform
Reportedly Uber has grown an astonishing 38 times bigger in just four years . Now, for what I ...
Publications
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highscalability
http://amazon.com/dp/B0765C4SNR - Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 http://basiscalculator.com http://highscalability.com
Y Combinator
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vitalik.eth
Ethereum Fable of the Dragon Tyrant (not mine but it's important): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZYNADOHhVY Abolish daylight savings time and leap seconds
HackerNoon | Learn Any Technology
how hackers start their afternoons. where 25k+ tech pros publish stories & expertise for 4M+ monthly readers. have a dope story? 👉http://publish.hackernoon.com
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