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Chapter 04

Read Replicas

Scale reads horizontally with read replicas, and confront replication lag — the gap between what you wrote and what a replica will tell you.

What You'll Learn in This Chapter:

  • Primary-Replica replication model
  • Scaling read throughput
  • Replication lag constraints
  • Eventual consistency guarantees
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