Part II — Technical Foundations of Architecture Chapter 8

Scalability, Performance, and Reliability

How to design for scale before you need it, measure performance before it degrades, and build reliability into the architecture rather than retrofitting it after incidents.

What this chapter covers
  • Horizontal vs. vertical scaling strategies
  • Caching patterns and cache invalidation
  • Load balancing and traffic management
  • Performance testing and capacity planning
  • Cell-based architecture for blast radius reduction
  • Chaos engineering and failure injection
  • Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles
  • Reactive system design and the Reactive Manifesto

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