Scaling out with Azure
Scaling up a single machine can help just up to a certain limit, beyond which we have no other option but trying to add more servers. Of course, this poses different issues; the most relevant being, how we can keep the redundant infrastructure transparent to users. This principle is the base of a solution that can scale at will and according to usage. The overall idea here is to have a load-balancing infrastructure that can transparently route the clients to different servers.
The problem is that this way we lose any guarantee about which of our servers will satisfy a request; therefore, those would need a system to exchange messages and information in order to provide a seamless and fully functional experience to users, ...
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