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

Xicom

However, If we talk about the ways of scaling in technical terms then there are Horizontal and Vertical Scaling through which you can increase the efficiency of your web application. Here you need to use: Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) to manage and distribute incoming traffic of the application on the multiple EC2 instances.

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Egnyte Architecture: Lessons learned in building and scaling a multi petabyte content platform

High Scalability

Load Balancers / Reverse Proxy. SOA architecture based on REST APIs. Focus on the core capability of your startup and if you are facing technically hard problems and you have to build something custom for it then roll up the sleeves and go for it. Egnyte Object Store. Application Servers. Elasticsearch. Message Queues.