How to Scale a Software Product for Millions of Users: Complete Architecture Guide
Scaling a software product for millions of users requires five compounding layers: stateless application design, horizontal compute scaling, database read/write splitting and eventual sharding, multi-tier caching, and asynchronous processing for non-critical workloads. No single technique handles it, and the right sequence depends entirely on where your current bottleneck is, not on what Netflix built. What…
