At a time when most of the enterprise projects resort to using one framework or another, which usually decides how the application will be served during the production phase, it is still a good idea to take a look beneath the surface and understand how to develop the application while keeping the scalability of the application in perspective.
In this section, we will take a look at the different techniques that can help us build a scalable application, even when we are not using some per-built framework which can do it for us. During the course of this section, we will see how we can use thread/process pooling to handle multiple clients at the same time, and why the pooling of resources is necessary and what prevents us from starting a separate thread or process for dealing with every other incoming request.
But before we dive into the...
