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Re:We Don’t Use Docker by ComputerGuru on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @01:49AM (#26473456)
You don’t need to scale your application vertically even with media processing, you just need to distribute that chunk of the work, which is a lot easier (no state).
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Re:We Don’t Use Docker by anonytrary on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @09:56PM (#26485610)
Like someone else said, distributing work across multiple machines is a form of horizontal scaling.
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Re:We Don’t Use Docker by mhuffman on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @10:51PM (#26485946)
> Like someone else said, distributing work across multiple machines is a form of horizontal scaling.

Sure, but it is the easy kind, when it comes to images or videos. Lambda, for example, can handle a huge amount of image processing for pennies per month and there is none of the additional machine baggage that comes with traditional horizontal scaling.

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Re:We Don’t Use Docker by LockAndLol on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @08:57AM (#26476097)
It really depends. Handling streaming video service that does any kind of reprocessing of the data would probably be better off with horizontal scaling.
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