What is scaling? What happens when a hundred people show up

Lesson 5 of when it breaks: what happens to a vibe-coded app when it suddenly gets popular. What scaling is, the two ways to do it, and why "it… Aliteq Sam Ortega · Build Editor

Scaling is handling more load without breaking

You scale up (a bigger machine) or out (more machines sharing the load)

The first thing to break is usually the database or code whose cost grows with the data

Don't pay to scale before you need to, but do test with realistic load before launch. If a page gets slower as its data grows, that's a scaling problem in the code; ask your AI tool whether a slow…

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