Alex Gaynor 5/27/2015

Tips for Scaling Web Apps

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This technical article provides actionable tips for scaling web applications, focusing on optimizing static assets with CDNs, managing sessions via signed cookies or K/V stores, implementing stateless web nodes with load balancers, and using object storage for user uploads. It emphasizes monitoring, automation, and using established libraries and services to build scalable and cost-effective systems.

Tips for Scaling Web Apps

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