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Horizontal scaling and vertical scaling are two strategies for increasing the capacity and performance of your application or infrastructure:

Horizontal Scaling (Scaling Out)​

• Definition: Adding more machines or instances to your system.
• How: You deploy additional servers (e.g., more VMs, containers, or physical machines) to distribute the load.
• Benefits:
  • Increases fault tolerance and availability.
  • Easier to scale dynamically (especially in cloud environments).
  • No single point of failure.
• Example: Adding more web servers behind a load balancer.