Part II — Technical Foundations of ArchitectureChapter 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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