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Use bigger machines instead of more machines.

There's always a limit on how big you can go, and a smaller limit on how big you should go, but eitherway it's pretty big. I wouldn't go past dual Intel Xeon, because 4P gets crazy expensive; I haven't been involved in systems work on Epyc, 1P might be a sensible limit, but maybe 2P makes sense for some uses.




If you have a single machine with 64 cores running 256 threads of your daemon that's considered vertical scaling? Odd definition


If multiple cores/threads shouldn't be considered vertical scaling, what should?

Overclocking a single-core processor from 2.8Ghz to 4.2Ghz can only take you so far after all...


Yes, because it's still a single system image (one running OS with one process table).


'Scale up' vs 'scale out' are, to me, more intuitive terms for the same thing. Up/vertical are aligned, I guess


Usually it involves having an insane amount of ram and keeping the entire DB in ram.




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