Tip of the day: Scale up first, then scale out

... Jacques makes the point we often make on this site: scale up first, then scale out. If a machine with 64 cores and 256G of RAM no longer works for you, then scale out. Start small and evolve....

http://highscalability.com/blog/2015/2/11/rescuing-an-outsourced-project-from-collapse-8-problems-foun.html