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Horizontal vs Vertical Scaling Your Ultimate Guide

The fundamental choice in scaling boils down to one question: do you make one server more powerful, or do you add more servers to handle the load? Vertical scaling (scaling up) tackles the first, think of upgrading a PC with extra RAM or a faster CPU. Horizontal scaling (scaling out) takes the second path, imagine…

vertical scaling vs horizontal scaling: A Practical Guide

When your application starts getting more traffic, you’re faced with a simple choice: do you make your current server more powerful, or do you just add more servers? That's the core difference between vertical scaling vs. horizontal scaling. Think of vertical scaling as upgrading your existing machine with more power, like adding more RAM or…

A Guide to Load Balancing AWS for Scalability

Picture a popular restaurant on a Saturday night. If there's only one host trying to seat a hundred people, you're going to have a long wait and a lot of frustrated customers. That's exactly what happens to a web application when a single server gets hammered with too much traffic. An AWS load balancer is…