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Scaling

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Scaling means making something bigger: more users of your app, more API requests, more data in your database, a bigger server, more servers, etc. When your app gets an influx of users, the infrastructure you’re running on might not be big or powerful enough to support it. So you need to either scale up, by upgrading to a bigger more powerful server, or scale out, by distributing your software across multiple different servers, all working together.

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Cloud is how companies rent infrastructure over the internet.

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