SMRTR ProgrammingNov 6, 2025Daily.dev

Scaling Sideways: Why You Might Want To Run Two Production Apps

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A Rails customer with multiple user types needed faster public website performance for SEO but struggled with slower admin tools clogging threads and causing unpredictable response times. They solved this by "scaling sideways" — running two identical production apps on separate subdomains, keeping fast public pages on the main app while moving slower authenticated portals and admin tools to the second app.

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