Re-design for the Cloud: a Real-Life Example of Horizontal Scaling
summary
Bol.com needed to download and sanitize 4.2 million supplier image URLs per day, but their custom proxy made the process resource-intensive and hard to scale. They re‑designed the import pipeline by splitting one big atomic action into multiple logical units and moved it to the cloud, enabling horizontal scaling focused on business logic.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:11Image import challenges
- 4:42Service architecture
- 7:30Handling spikes
- 9:16Cloud design
- 10:20Cloud security
- 11:45Scaling for peak loads
- 13:08Workflow optimization
- 14:53Summary
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