What are the core components of production system design?

DNS for resolution, load balancers for distribution, API gateways for routing, queues for async, caches/DBs for data.

Why horizontal scaling over vertical for production systems?

No downtime, redundancy, infinite(ish) capacity — vertical hits hardware walls fast.

No. Monoliths scale to millions. Add when teams or domains split.

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Production system design prioritizes horizontal scaling, load balancers, and async queues to handle real-world spikes without downtime. 𝕏
API gateways centralize routing and security, hiding microservice complexity from the wild internet. 𝕏
Caches like Redis and tools like SQS turn brittle apps into resilient machines — ignore them at scale peril. 𝕏

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