Scalability Basics: Why Your App Works for 100 Users but Fails at 100,000
When developers first build an application, scalability is rarely the biggest concern.
The application works. Users can log in. Orders can be placed. Data is stored correctly. Life is good!!
Then some
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Sara
Great explanation, especially the way the example shows how quickly things break once real usage increases. One thing I find interesting is how different apps handle that jump from small to real scale. A lot of it only becomes visible once people actually start using the product, not during initial development. I have been browsing a lot of these kinds of apps on https://unstore.io and it is interesting to see how different projects deal with scaling challenges in practice.