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Horizontal Scaling

Adding more identical instances rather than a bigger one; it requires work to be partitionable and instances to hold no exclusive state, and it turns capacity into a scheduling and limits problem rather than a hardware one.

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Horizontal vs Vertical Scaling in System Design

Scalability is the ability of a system to handle increased load by adding computational resources, achieved through two mechanisms: vertical scaling (increasing the capacity of a single machine) and …