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Scale a web app - Azure Tutorial
From the course: Getting Started with Microsoft Azure by Microsoft Press
Scale a web app
Just as with the virtual machine that we created earlier, App Service is able to easily scale to meet the needs of your application, and you can scale either vertically or horizontally. Scaling vertically means that you change the size of the underlying VM hosting your application. This is a good choice if you're scaling because you need more CPU power or more memory. Scaling horizontally means adding additional VMs for your app. And all of these VMs are identical. This is a good choice if you're experiencing a resource limitation specific to software. For example, App Service runs on a web server running on a VM. And a web server is software that's designed to listen for HTTP requests and respond with HTTP responses. And it can do this with a large number of simultaneous requests. However, there is an upper limit to the number of simultaneous requests that a web server can handle. And once that number is exceeded, any subsequent requests get queued. And that means the user is likely…
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