7 must-know strategies to scale your database.

1 - Indexing: Check the query patterns of your application and create the right indexes.

2 - Materialized Views: Pre-compute complex query results and store them for faster access.

3 - Denormalization: Reduce complex joins to improve query performance.

4 - Vertical Scaling Boost your database server by adding more CPU, RAM, or storage.

5 - Caching Store frequently accessed data in a faster storage layer to reduce database load.

6 - Replication Create replicas of your primary database on different servers for scaling the reads.

7 - Sharding Split your database tables into smaller pieces and spread them across servers. Used for scaling the writes as well as the reads.

Over to you: What other strategies do you use for scaling your databases?