Measuring Load and Performance
Explore how to measure load and performance in distributed systems by using metrics such as queries per second, read-to-write ratios, and response time percentiles. This lesson helps you understand when and how to scale systems effectively to handle increasing user demand and maintain performance.
Scaling a system is critical to coping with the increasing load imposed on it. For example, think of our hypothetical My Cool App’s growth—it is now a billion-dollar company.
Initially, when the My Cool App had a few hundred concurrent users, handling the load using to ...