From 7798060b8079312004c527613f39c0a2485181df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dmitry Shurupov Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2024 12:27:33 +0700 Subject: [PATCH] [en] Small fix for horizontal-scaling.md Signed-off-by: Dmitry Shurupov --- content/en/horizontal-scaling.md | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/en/horizontal-scaling.md b/content/en/horizontal-scaling.md index 99b1f71641..40f1abd766 100644 --- a/content/en/horizontal-scaling.md +++ b/content/en/horizontal-scaling.md @@ -7,10 +7,11 @@ tags: ["infrastructure", "", ""] Horizontal scaling is a technique where a system's capacity is increased by adding more [nodes](/nodes/) versus adding more compute resources to individual nodes (the latter being known as [vertical scaling](/vertical-scaling/)). -Let's say, we have a system of 4GB RAM and want to increase its capacity to 16GB RAM, -scaling it horizontally means doing so by adding 4 x 4GB RAM rather than switching to a 16GB RAM system. +Let's say, we have a system of 4GB RAM and want to increase its capacity to 16GB RAM. +Scaling it horizontally means doing so by adding 3 nodes x 4GB RAM rather than switching to +a 16GB RAM system. -This approach enhances the performance of an application by adding new instances, or [nodes](/nodes/), +This approach enhances the performance of an application by adding new instances, or nodes, to better distribute the workload. In simple words, it aims to decrease the server's load rather than expanding capacity of the individual server.