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Massively scaling a web application

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  1. Single server setup
  2. Vertical scaling
  3. Horizontal scaling
  4. Stateful-vs-stateless
  5. Load balancer
  6. Choice of database
  7. Database replication
  8. Database sharding
  9. Caching
  10. CDN
  11. Multi-region deployment

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