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Discussion on "Vertical vs Horizontal Scaling" | Hashnode

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Sam-Obisike Chibueze

Software Engineer | Chattered Software Consultant | Technical Writer

Mar 10, 2022

Vertical vs Horizontal Scaling

When we want to deal with scaling servers we basically talk about Horizontal (Scaling out) and Vertical (Scaling up). What exactly is Scaling in Software Engineering? Scaling is the process of adjusting the number of processes available to serve req...

chibueze.hashnode.dev5 min read

#scalability #software-engineering #software-architecture #caching #cloud

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Idris Olubisi

Developer Relation Engineer | Software Engineer | Technical Writer

Mar 10, 2022

Thanks for sharing Sam-Obisike Chibueze

Thank you Chief.

Mar 10, 2022

Osinachi Chukwujama

Web developer + Technical Writer

Mar 10, 2022

Nice one chief. Are you saying that system maintenance only happens when an ops team wants to scale their system?

Do these systems run on single Virtual Machines?

Sam-Obisike Chibueze

Software Engineer | Chattered Software Consultant | Technical Writer

Mar 10, 2022

Nope I said "maybe"

It depends on the systems architecture engineer and the capacity of the virtual machine, so I can't say exactly if they run on a virtual machine or multiple (horizontal scale)