Vertical vs Horizontal Scaling - System Design Basics

Renaissance Engineer - Sep 1 '20 - - Dev Community

Part 2 of my series on System Design Basics

Having tons of people using your application is obviously great, but with more users comes more problems, the main one being SCALING. As the number of traffic to your application increases you will require more resources to handle that traffic. This brings up the decision of whether to scale your application vertically or horizontally. In this video I'll cover the pros and cons of both options.

Let me know if you have any questions or topics you'd like me to cover in future tutorials!

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