Why scalability matters
Web applications that cannot scale create real business problems: slow load times during traffic spikes, degraded user experience at critical moments, and missed revenue opportunities. Scalable architecture addresses all of this by design, not as an afterthought. Key benefits include:
- Consistent user experience even at peak load.
- The ability to capture seasonal or campaign-driven traffic growth.
- A lower cost-per-user as the application scales.
- Reduced technical debt from reactive over-engineering later.
- A clear path to higher return on investment.
What the webinar covers
The session is structured around three questions that architects and developers face when building modern web applications:
What is scalability and scalable architecture?
Before choosing a solution, it helps to understand what scalability actually means in structural terms: horizontal vs vertical scaling, stateless design, load distribution, and the architectural decisions that either enable or limit growth from day one.
How to choose the right software architecture pattern for scalability?
Not every application needs microservices. The webinar walks through how to evaluate your application's complexity, team structure, and growth trajectory to match the right architecture pattern, whether that is monolith, modular monolith, or microservices, to your actual needs.
How to build highly scalable web applications using Azure cloud services?
The session covers the Azure services that are most relevant to scalable web applications, including Azure App Service, Azure Functions, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, Azure Service Bus, and CDN, and explains how to combine them effectively. A real-world case study brings the principles to life.
Watch the webinar
The full 40-minute session is available to watch on demand. Access the recording and the presentation slides to follow along at your own pace.
You can also access the full slide deck from the webinar presentation.
Webinar agenda
0:00 Introduction and context
2:14 Modern web applications: challenges and expectations
9:15 Essentials of building a scalable web application on Azure
20:09 Case study
36:19 Q&A
About the webinar speakers
Mindaugas Kvedaras – Speaker
Mindaugas is the Head of .NET at Baltic Amadeus. His expertise spans the full lifecycle of enterprise .NET development, with a strong focus on cloud-native architecture in Azure. He works across both private-sector organisations and governmental institutions, including projects in Lithuania and internationally.
Robertas Skardžius – Moderator
Robertas is the Cloud Service Development Manager at Baltic Amadeus and a cloud computing expert with over 15 years of experience across multi-country IT projects. He specialises in Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS) and is currently focused on helping organisations assess their existing software and prepare for application modernisation and cloud migration.
