How do you know when it's time to scale/optimize your tech and how to approach it?

by Dashiell Bark-Huss

I'm clueless about scaling, however my platform is growing and I'm concerned that my site is going to slow down. According to google analytics I had 400 people on my site at once today.

What are things I need to consider? Is there a way to know if I need to scale? How can I tell if my site has slowed down? How can I figure out what I need to scale? How do I figure out what the bottle necks may be.

I know thats a lot of questions, but really I'm just looking for any advice/resources for a beginner.

Tech:
frontend: Netlify, React
Image hosting: AWS
Database hosting: mongo atlas
Backend: Heroku, node/express

Resources

After I posted this questions I found these resources helpful:

1. Scaling an Application (video)

This video walks through a high level view of scaling an application overtime.

2. scaling on heroku (video)

Apparently you can do some scaling with Heroku really easily:

3. How I scaled a website to 10 million users (web-servers & databases, high load, and performance (video)

4. Web Server Bottlenecks And Performance Tuning

start with optimizing the frontend

The video above mentioned threads vs processes. this video is a high level explanation of the difference this one does too

Dashiell Bark-Huss

on February 21, 2022

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