Lesson 02 · 10 min
Scaling: vertical, horizontal and the load balancer
A bigger server or more servers, and who spreads the requests between them.
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When one server can no longer cope, there are two ways forward. Vertical scaling (scale up): more CPU, more memory, a faster disk on the same machine. Horizontal (scale out): more identical machines that share the load.
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