The idea here is to run the same instance of the software multiple times behind a load balancer for high throughput. With this, we can easily scale the API tier or web tier, but cannot do so for the database tier, which will become a bottleneck once it reaches an IoT scale, but can be used for small applications.
X-scaling or horizontal duplication
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