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Design a system that scales to millions of users on AWS

Design a service that grows from one user to millions of users on AWS.

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Communication › Hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP)Domain name system › Disadvantage(s): DNS Content delivery network › Disadvantage(s): CDN

2Distribute requests

Load balancer › Horizontal scaling Reverse proxy › Load balancer vs reverse proxy

3Serve read-heavy traffic

Cache › Application caching

4Run work asynchronously

Asynchronism › Task queues Asynchronism › Message queues

5Store and scale data

Database › NoSQL Database › Master-slave replication Database › Sharding Database › Federation

6Scale async capacity

Asynchronism › Task queues Asynchronism › Message queues

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