Horizontally Scaling Realtime Applications
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4 min readOct 29, 2023
When it comes to scaling, we have two options for adding extra computing power. Increase the size of a single server, or add more servers. The former is called vertical scaling and the latter is horizontal scaling. Cloud computing has made horizontal scaling the popular choice for many reasons, including:
- Increasing the compute of a single computer is slow, simply adding more instances to…