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Scalability

Handling growth in load (users, requests, data) without degrading — vertical vs horizontal scaling.

Why we need this / what value this brings

Scaling problems are far cheaper to fix before they're urgent than mid-incident under real load.

When to use this

Once there's a concrete growth signal (traffic trend, a specific slow endpoint) — not speculatively.

How to use or implement this

Profile the actual bottleneck first (usually the DB) before reaching for horizontal scaling or infra changes.

Research questions

  • What's Localz's first actual scaling bottleneck likely to be (DB connections? a single hot table?)?

Empty folder — drop notes, links, and findings here as you research.

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