Vertical Scaling vs. Horizontal Scaling for the Non-technical listener

Private Equity FunCast · Sep 11, 2015 · 1m

Alan and Jim talk about the ins and outs of making applications run faster and scale to handle lots of users. We compare the two choices for scaling applications: Vertical scaling (adding more resources to existing machines), versus Horizontal scaling (spreading the load across multiple machines). We also discuss Amazon's AWS and EC2 platforms versus Microsoft Azure.