When there are flash sales on different platforms ...
# randome
echoing-computer-87366
08/22/2020, 1:10 PMWhen there are flash sales on different platforms eg: mobile phone flash sales on flipkart amazon etc Do they scale their read replica's during flash sales for better performance? Because the traffic increases 10x or 20x for short period of time
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brash-monitor-80970
08/22/2020, 3:24 PMSure thats one way of looking at it. The possibility that they are running their website as microservices is high. I am think they use combination of SQL + NoSQL databases with Read replica
brash-monitor-80970
08/22/2020, 3:26 PMThere is a good chance they are running their infra on top of kubernetes. Hence scaling up their pods with the traffic is one way of doing it. And yes databases can be run on top of K8s now
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echoing-computer-87366
08/24/2020, 6:16 PMOh ok. Do you know any good blogs or tutorials which show implementation of read replication and scaling database for high read throughput @brash-monitor-80970