The solution would be choose a scalable deployment architecture:
a) Use a load balancer approach with multiple application servers (AWS AutoScale etc)
b) DB on a scalable platform like XeRound or one write and many reads instances

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Describe some of the ways you would scale a web-based application to handle huge traffic?

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