Horizontal scaling
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Horizontal scaling only works if servers are stateless aka, server needs to treat the request as if the user came in here for the very first time
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- ScalabilityGrowing
A service is scalable if it results in increased performance in a manner proportional to resources added. Generally, increasing performance means serving more units of work, but it can also be to…