===== Scaling Out =====
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**Scaling Out** takes the infrastructure you’ve got, and replicates it to work in parallel. This has the effect of increasing infrastructure capacity roughly linearly. Data centers often scale out using pods. Build a compute pod, spin up [[dido:public:ra:xapend:xapend.a_glossary:a:application|applications]] to use it, then scale out by building another pod to add capacity. Actual [[dido:public:ra:xapend:xapend.a_glossary:a:appperform|application performance]] may not be linear, as application architectures must be written to work effectively in a scale-out environment.

Also see: [[dido:public:ra:xapend:xapend.a_glossary:s:scaleup]]

Source: [[https://packetpushers.net/scale-up-vs-scale-out/ ]]