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How to Effectively Scale Up Your App To Handle 1 Million Users?

Xicom

Here you need to use: Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) to manage and distribute incoming traffic of the application on the multiple EC2 instances. Handling 1 million users has never been an easy task, so it is always advised to use Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) while developing and designing the enterprise level web application.

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Journey to Event Driven – Part 2: Programming Models for the Event-Driven Architecture

Confluent

Distributed object (RPC sync), service-oriented architecture (SOA), enterprise service bus (ESB), event-driven architecture (EDA), reactive programming to microservices and now FaaS have each built on the learnings of the previous. Programming models have evolved over the years.

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The Rise of Managed Services for Apache Kafka

Confluent

Besides the minimum, other resources that may be necessary for your deployment include load balancers, SSL certificates, metrics and logs, NAT gateways (if each compute instance requires superior egress throughput), and encryption keys. Storage: each instance will likely have non-ephemeral disks attached to it.