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Microservices with Clojure
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Microservices with Clojure

by Anuj Kumar
January 2018
Intermediate to advanced
336 pages
7h 56m
English
Packt Publishing
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Scaling

The Art of Scalability (http://theartofscalability.com/) book uses a scale cube model to describe three primary scaling patterns for an application, as shown in the following diagram. The x-axis of the cube represents horizontal scaling; that is, deploying the same instance of the application by just cloning them and front-ending by a load balancer to distribute the load evenly among the instances. This scaling pattern is quite common for handling a high number of service requests. The z-axis of the cube addresses scaling by data partitioning. In this case, each application instance deals with only a subset of data. This scaling pattern is particularly useful for applications where the persistence layer becomes a bottleneck:

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ISBN: 9781788622240