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Using proxies, caches, and clusters to scale your architecture (Advanced)

Eventually you'll find that you need to start splitting your application to accommodate growth. This recipe discusses some components and strategies that you might consider, including Ultra Monkey, a methodology that will help you get started navigating the different clustering components that can be used in your application.

Getting started

Chances are your setup will be more complex than a simple web plus database server. When that happens, it's time to start thinking about how to scale your architecture. You can start with simple separation (as outlined in the Optimizing your solution performance recipe) such as moving the databases to different servers, moving the backup ...