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I consulted on a site that could get 50 million unique users in any given month, sometimes with large bursts of traffic. A heavy read site is trivial to scale
by aantix 8y ago
I consulted on a site that could get 50 million unique users in any given month, sometimes with large bursts of traffic.
A heavy read site is trivial to scale these days. Serve static assets from CDNs, fragment cache the views, horizontally scale when needed. Rinse, repeat.
- sho 8y agoExactly. I've also been involved with read-heavy Rails sites serving well in excess of 1000reqs/sec, and I know that others sites (Shopify et al) do way more. As you point out, it's all about having an intelligent caching strategy and extensive use of CDNs. Most scaling issues I've seen on well-designed Rails sites have been to do with the DB, not the framework!