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Vertical scaling

What is vertical scaling and how to scale a server.

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Franco Fernando
Aug 24, 2024
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Hi Friends,

Welcome to the 86th issue of the Polymathic Engineer newsletter.

This week, we discuss what does it mean to vertically scale a server and which are the possible ways of doing it.

This is the outline:

  • vertical vs horizontal scaling

  • how to scale vertically a system

  • limitations of vertical scaling

Vertical vs. Horizontal scaling

Scalability is the ab…

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