title: ThingWorx Horizontal Scalability
body: <p>What architecture and application development best practices must be followed in order to scale a TWX application?</p>
  
  <p>The majority of applications start with few devices but with time they quickly build up to thousands of devices. Once the amount of traffic is too much for one TWX instance what strategy should  be followed?
  The same question applies when the front end is overwhelmed by the number of users.</p>