Vertical vs Horizontal Scaling: How Do Real Systems Handle Growth?

<p>WebSocket provides low-latency, bidirectional communication between clients and servers. It is a widely used solution for building real-time systems. Once a WebSocket

<p>Everything is going great.</p> <p>Your application launches.</p> <p>You have:<br /> </p> <div class="highlight js-code-highlight"> <pre class="highlight plaintext"><code>10,000

<h2> 1. Intro — The Problem We Actually Had </h2> <p>Building real-time systems is often presented as a distributed systems problem.</p> <p>Kafka, stream processors, event buses,

<p>You open amazon.com. A product page loads in under a second. Behind that single page load, your request hit a DNS server, bounced through a CDN edge node, passed a rate