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amigoingtodie on Oct 5, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: URL to PDF Microservice

As long as the workers do not need to coordinate, it should scale.

Round-robin those folks.

jklein11 on Oct 5, 2017 [–]

If there is only one worker the requests can flow directly to that one worker. If there are two workers, something would need to sit in the middle and determine how to distribute the requests. That extra hop is where the extra complexity comes from.

amigoingtodie on Oct 6, 2017 | [–]

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