Horizontal vs. Vertical Scaling

The heart of the difference is the approach to adding computing resources to our infrastructure.

Vertical Scaling

With vertical scaling (a.k.a. “scaling up”), we adding more power (CPU, RAM, etc.) to our existing machine.

Horizontal Scaling

In horizontal scaling (a.k.a. “scaling out”), we get the additional resources into our system by adding more machines to your network.

Here we sharing the processing and memory workload across multiple devices.