As the developer community is well aware, demand for application programming interfaces, or APIs, is not static. It usually ebbs and flows over time.

For instance, during the holiday season, there could be a significant spike in traffic, requiring more API capacity to handle the increased load. To meet such an increase in traffic, system admins have two choices when it comes to scaling an API.

They can go with horizontal scaling, which refers to adding more API instances to a cluster. Or vertical scaling, which means adding to the computing capacity of the machine that supports the API.

But which one is best for API scalability? Let’s explore the two scaling methods to find out!

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