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Re:Fixing Python Performance with Rust by fowl2 on Thursday October 20, 2016 @01:38AM (#12749945)
I think scaling is more about serving demand - whether you you use more resources on a single box, more resources by using more boxes or use the same resources more efficiently you're still scaling.
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Re:Fixing Python Performance with Rust by computerphage on Thursday October 20, 2016 @10:53AM (#12752771)
This is the closest to my use of the term. I'd go further and say that using more resources on a single box is vertical scaling, using more boxes is horizontal, and this thing is neither. How about density scaling?
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