Design Microservices Architecture with Patterns and Principles - Design the Architecture - Scalability - E-Commerce App

The video tutorial covers the process of designing an e-commerce application architecture, emphasizing the importance of identifying both functional and non-functional requirements. It highlights the need for scalability and reliability, introducing horizontal scaling and load balancing as key solutions. The tutorial also discusses clean and multi-architecture patterns, and the challenges of scaling stateless application servers versus stateful database servers. The final architecture design incorporates these elements to handle increased concurrent user requests effectively.

What are the functional and non-functional requirements that should be considered when designing an e-commerce application?

Explain the importance of scalability and load balancing in the architecture of an e-commerce application.

Describe the role of a load balancer in managing requests to an e-commerce application.

How does horizontal scaling differ from vertical scaling in the context of application servers?

What challenges are associated with scaling relational database servers compared to application servers?