https://eric.nz/tags/vertical-scaling/ Recent content in vertical-scaling on Eric's Note https://eric.nz/%3Clink%20or%20path%20of%20image%20for%20opengraph,%20twitter-cards%3E https://eric.nz/%3Clink%20or%20path%20of%20image%20for%20opengraph,%20twitter-cards%3E Hugo -- gohugo.io Mon, 06 Mar 2017 16:12:41 +0000 https://eric.nz/posts/sys-design-iv-vertical-horizontal-scaling/ Mon, 06 Mar 2017 16:12:41 +0000 https://eric.nz/posts/sys-design-iv-vertical-horizontal-scaling/ There are two common ways to scale your application: Vertical Scaling and Horizontal Scaling . Let’s say you have your own web app and it’s running on a single server to start, the number of users rapidly growing, and you may start to meet some performance bottleneck in following aspect: CPU. If you are doing a certain function that requires a lot of processing power, like image conversion or video decoding.