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11. Performance and Scalability

Vinay Trivedi1 
(1)
Newtown, PA, USA
 

As an eager entrepreneur, you monitor MyAppoly’s usage carefully and address any issues immediately. You spend time sifting through the analytics reports from your team, and you notice signs of success. The number of users you have is snowballing. Soon, your team approaches you and asks to discuss how to improve the site now that it is attracting unprecedented traffic. Some engineers note that certain pages are much slower than their potential and that the current setup cannot support many more users, especially at the rate of growth the metrics suggest. For example, each server can only ...

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