how to scale your web app
Categories: rails, scalability
Written By: todd
George Palmer (3dogsbark.com) presented a great overview at Barcamp London on scaling a rails webapp. The slideshow is available here. I wasn’t there when he presented this, but the slides themselves are impressive — lots of pictures and you can follow along easily, even without any narration. He covers moving from one server to two, scaling the database, clustering, caching, and even a design for globally-distributed sites under heavy load.
Most startup-scale web apps don’t have traffic requiring this level of infrastructure, but it’s nice to have a plan in place to get to the next level when the need arises. This slideshow can help lay the groundwork for such a plan, and maybe even help you (and your team) sleep better knowing you have a way to manage growth.
