Distributed systems! Vertical vs Horizontal Scaling! Why the heck?

In this video, we look into the various aspects of Distributed Systems defining basic terminologies like Horizontal and Vertical Scaling. We also touch upon the role and positioning of the load-balancer.

System Design 101: Basics of System Design:

Video chapters:
- Why I made this video?: (0:00)
- Objective of the video: (0:26)
- Basic Introduction: (1:24)
- Vertical Scaling Definition: (3:34)
- Horizontal Scaling Definition: (3:57)
- Drawing Board: (4:24)
- Drawing Board (Splitting machines): (5:51)
- Drawing Board (New job): (7:34)
- Drawing Board (Load Balancer introduction): (8:56)
- Drawing Board (Real-life example): (9:14)
- Closure: (11:21)

#horizontalscaling #verticalscaling #scaleout #scaleup

[saideepesh]

Thanks for this video, please continue this series with some more example designs.

[samchau]

Nice and good! But could you please add concepts about which databases are used at backend and when!