The cloud is all about scaling—it is one of the most important advantages of such a setup over an on-premises setup. The ability to rapidly adapt to new demands when it comes to incoming traffic, and the flexibility a cloud offers, enables you to create more stable services, which are less prone to unexpected load spikes and insufficient hardware performance. In this chapter, we will focus a little bit on diving deeper into the scaling topic, in order to build a deep understanding of how different services behave in Azure, and how you can ensure that the scaling feature is automated and requires as little attention as possible.
Autoscaling, scaling up, scaling out
Autoscaling
You can define the autoscaling feature of...