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# Scaling Databases


- **Date:** Friday, Jul 19, 2024
- **Time:** 10:20–10:50 (30 min)
- **Room:** STAGE 9 (600)
- **Event:** World Congress 2024

## Recording

[Watch recording](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1143-scaling-databases)

## Description

When your application becomes more popular and receives more traffic, you can just add more stateless application server. But for the database, this is more complicated - scaling systems with state is always complex.

Articles and blogs never explain the different approaches and their shortcomings of horizontal database scaling solutions reasonably - most often, they just try to "sell" a specific approach. But each of them has an impact on your application, and you need to build it with these constraints in mind. 

Covered in the talk will be:
* Tasks to do before any scaling
* Scaling-Up as a simple first approach
* Multi-Master-Replication
* Replication
* Sharding

## Speaker

### [Tobias Petry](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@tobias-petry)

Database Educator


## Related talks at this congress

- [Fault Tolerance and Consistency at Scale: Harnessing the Power of Distributed SQL Databases](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2024/sessions/274-fault-tolerance-and) — Wei Hu
- [Durable Execution: A Revolutionary Abstraction for Building Resilient Applications](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2024/sessions/142-durable-execution-a) — Maxim Fateev
- [Modern Data Architectures need Software Engineering](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2024/sessions/417-modern-data) — Matthias Niehoff
- [Top Database Performance Techniques](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2024/sessions/373-top-database) — Bryden Oliver