Take your Node.js application into production-ready status, capable of scaling up to whatever your needs might be. You'll discover that architecting for successful, popular sites is an essential tool of any professional Node.js developer, and learning to scale your own applications is a great place to start.
Using this book you will learn when to scale, what factors should trigger scaling, and what architectural techniques are best suited for scaling. You will also explore common pitfalls that arise when scaling a Node.js application and solutions to correct them.
Including analyses of success cases at the largest-scale companies, such as Netflix and Paypal, this book will get you started with scaling in no time at all.

What You'll Learn
• Determine what factors should trigger the need to scale
• Discover different architectural patterns that lend themselves to scaling
• Resolve problems that arise when scaling up a Node.js application
• Monitor a platform in order to understand when to start scaling

Who This Book Is For

The main audience for this book are Node.js developers with a mid-level understanding of the technology. Novice Node users will also benefit from the coverage of generic scaling-related topics.

把你的Node.js应用程序带入生产就绪状态，能够扩展到你可能需要的任何东西。你会发现，为成功的、受欢迎的网站进行架构设计是任何专业的Node.js开发人员的基本工具，而学习扩展你自己的应用程序是一个很好的开始。

通过本书，你将了解何时进行扩展，哪些因素应该触发扩展，以及哪些架构技术最适合扩展。你还将探索在扩展Node.js应用程序时出现的常见陷阱以及纠正这些陷阱的解决方案。

本书包括对Netflix和Paypal等规模最大的公司的成功案例的分析，将使你在短时间内开始进行扩展。

你会学到什么

- 确定哪些因素应该触发扩展的需要

- 发现适合扩展的不同架构模式

- 解决扩展Node.js应用程序时出现的问题

- 监控一个平台，以便了解何时开始扩展

本书适用对象

本书的主要读者是对Node.js技术有中等程度了解的开发者。Node新手也会从通用扩展相关主题的报道中受益。