Horizontally Scaling Parse Server?

Question

Are separate instances of Parse Server independent? IOW, do they coordinate through the MongoDB backend? I suspect so. If so, then I can run multiple systems behind a load balancer and synthesize something with a bit better availability. I can also spin up my web apps and give them their own private Parse Server to query the database.

Can anyone confirm or deny whether a Parse Server is horizontally scalable?

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 02 '16 at 16:14

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It is horizontally scalable, we currently run 7-10 instances depending on the load without any issue. you mongodb server should be big enough to accept all those connections

answered Sep 02 '16 at 16:14

flovilmart

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 08 '16 at 18:10

One thing to think about as well is using a clustering, throng, pm2 to take advantage if you have more cores for the server your using.

Node.js only runs on one core so if you have beefy servers with multiple cores you should also spawn more parse instances.

Horizontally Scaling Parse Server?

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