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What’s the best material on scalability?

7th April 2013

My answer to What’s the best material on scalability? on Quora

Cal Henderson’s book Building Scalable Websites offers a good grounding.

The summaries published on http://www.highscalability.com are definitely worth reading.

Posted 7th April 2013 at 1:40 pm · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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