Why Scaling Servers Doesn't Fix Your Database Bottleneck
Your application is running on multiple servers. Traffic is growing. Everything looks good — until one day, your database becomes the slowest part of the system.
Jun 27, 20266 min read33

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Your application is running on multiple servers. Traffic is growing. Everything looks good — until one day, your database becomes the slowest part of the system.

When you launch a new application, a single-server architecture is usually more than enough. Your users send requests, the server processes the backend logic, talks to the database, and returns a resp
