Scale or die

If you are involved in a small-size tech company that offers online services you are hopefully faced sooner or later with the growth of your user base beyond the capabilities of your original system. There are many ways to help your service scale, from faster hardware to leaner software and better architecture. I am collecting in this blogs thoughts and data coming from my own experience as an architect involved in growing an online synchronization service, taking care of the software as well as the operations of such a service. My name is Alexis Lê-Quôc