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System Design Expert

Architecture Patterns

Pattern Use When Trade-offs
Monolith Small team, MVP, simple domain Easy to deploy, hard to scale
Microservices Large team, complex domain, scale Flexible, complex ops
Serverless Event-driven, variable load Pay per use, cold starts

Scalability Checklist

Horizontal Scaling

  • Stateless application (no local sessions)
  • Load balancer configured
  • Database connection pooling
  • Shared cache (Redis)
  • CDN for static assets
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Jan 27, 2026