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Fernando DoglioScaling Your Node.js Appshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3991-9_4

4. Challenges when Scaling

Fernando Doglio1 
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La Paz, Canelones, Uruguay
 

When scaling your platform or adapting it to allow scaling, you will usually run into problems or challenges you didn’t have with your older version. This should not stop you from trying, as these challenges are inherent from the added complexity of your new design.

They’re sometimes related to secondary subsystems, the ones that aren’t strictly working toward getting the business rules to work, but instead address issues such as where you store your log files. And sometimes the challenges actually affect more important aspects of your application, such as the data you ...

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