Stateful and Stateless Horizontal Scaling for Cloud Environments
Tetiana Fydorenchyk | October 23, 2018 | DevOps PaaS | auto-scaling, automated scalability, Automatic Scaling, Horizontal scaling, Scaling
Horizontal scaling (adding several servers to the cluster) is commonly used to improve performance and provide high availability (HA). The important advantage is that it lets increase capacity on the fly and gives more freedom to grow. But at the same time, it requires the application to be carefully designed so that it is synchronized…