Every day, companies struggle to scale critical applications. As traffic volume and data demands increase, these applications become more complicated and brittle, exposing risks and compromising availability. This practical guide shows IT, devops, and system reliability managers how to prevent an application from becoming slow, inconsistent, or downright unavailable as it grows. Scaling isn't just about handling more users; it's also about managing risk and ensuring availability. Author Lee Atchison provides basic techniques for building applications that can handle huge quantities of traffic, data, and
demand without affecting the quality your customers expect"

Every day companies struggled to scale critical applications. As traffic and data demands increase, these applications become more brittle, exposing risks and compromising availability. With the popularity of software as a service, scaling has never been more important. Update with an expanded focus on modern architecture paradigms such as micro services and computing, this practical guide provides techniques for building systems that can handle huge quantities of traffic data, and demand without affecting the quality your customer expect. Architects, managers, and directors in engineering and operations organizations will learn how to build applications at scale that run more smoothly and reliably to meet the needs of customers.