technology hard Fill in the Blank

The pattern that enables stateless microservices to scale independently is called ________ Scaling.

  1. Diversity
  2. Testable
  3. Hybrid
  4. Horizontal

Answer: Horizontal

Horizontal scaling adds more instances of stateless services to handle increased load. Contrasts with vertical scaling (upgrading instance size).

Topic Advanced Cloud Architecture
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