Horizontal and Vertical Scaling - How to Scale Your Application

Explore the concepts of horizontal and vertical scaling in this comprehensive system design video. Learn about in-house versus cloud solutions, stateless services, and the steps to scale an application effectively. Discover the differences between horizontal and vertical scaling, understand diminishing returns, and analyze performance through charting. Delve into how virtualization affects scaling, explore scaling with serverless services, and examine database scaling techniques. Gain valuable insights into system design principles and practical scaling strategies to optimize your application's performance and scalability.

- Introduction
- in house vs cloud
- What is horizontal and vertical scaling?
- Backend API
- Stateless Services
- Vertical Scaling
- Steps to Scale an App
- Horizontal or Vertical?
- Diminishing Returns
- Charting Performance
- How things Differ When Virtualized
- Scaling with Serverless Services
- Scaling Databases
- Resources