OxyCast: Podcast on Everything Web Scraping Related

In the 4th episode of OxyCast, our host, Augustinas Kalvis, along with the special guest who has been at Oxylabs since the very beginning, Eivydas Vilčinskas (Tech Team Lead), discuss the ever-complex yet always relevant topic of scaling. From the explanation of what scaling is and why it’s essential to its unique intricacies, difficulties, and viable approaches, this episode looks at all of it.

In this episode, we answer the following questions:

• How do you go from 10 requests per second to tens of thousands?

• How do you ensure various bottlenecks are solved, and where might they appear in the first place?

• Infrastructure and application bottlenecks - when do you encounter them, and what are some of the solutions you could use?

• Vertical vs. Horizontal scaling, what are their differences, and when to use which?

• Load balancers, how do they help?