Scaling NodeJS beyond the ordinary
summary
Covers how Flipkart scaled a Node.js web server under increasing features and traffic, examining both horizontal and vertical scaling strategies. Describes common resource bottlenecks—network, memory, disk, and CPU—and how to detect them, plus technologies that can be used to address each bottleneck.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Start
- 2:41Why should it concern the JS community?
- 4:15Types of Scalability
- 4:44Horizontal Scaling
- 5:37Vertical Scaling
- 6:59The Optimisation Cycle
- 8:38network bandwidth
- 10:56co-hosted nginx
- 12:54ulimit
- 14:04keep-alive header
- 14:46connection pooling
- 16:14tcp connection states
