Architecting for Scale How to Maintain High Availability and Manage Risk in the Cloud
There was a time in the early days of the internet and app economy when scale was a challenge that only a select few had to fret over. The term “web scale” was coined to address the early challenges of companies like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and later the architectures of Facebook, Netflix, and others who first reached massive volumes of users. But today, nearly every company sees massive demands on their applications and infrastructure.