Scaling on demand is one of the key benefits of using cloud-native applications. It also helps optimize resources for your application. If the frontend component encounters heavy loads, you can scale the frontend alone, while keeping the same number of backend instances. You can increase or reduce the number/size of VMs required depending on your workload and peak demand hours. You will scale your application components independently and also see how to troubleshoot scaling issues.
Scaling your application
Implementing independent scaling
To demonstrate independent scaling, let's use the guestbook example that we used in the previous chapter. Let's follow these steps to learn how to implement independent scaling...
