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C4.1 Scaling Microservice Instances

These techniques address scaling a single microservice and integrating its instances.

Microservices allow deploying instances in a replicated way in order to scale horizontally to individually cope with varying levels of load on each microservice L59L21L20.

Microservice Characteristicโ€‹

The distinguishing microservice characteristic is the (horizontal) scalability. The main focus is designing a microservice for scalability and integrating the instances at runtime.

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