Horizontal Scaling of RAG Components
Design and implement strategies for horizontally scaling your RAG components, including vector databases and LLM inference services.
Why Scale Your RAG App?
As your RAG application grows, more users will interact with it, and your data sources will expand. This puts pressure on your system!
Horizontal scaling helps your app handle more requests and larger datasets by adding more components, rather than making existing ones bigger.
Horizontal vs. Vertical Scaling
Imagine your RAG app as a restaurant. If you need to serve more customers:
- Vertical Scaling: Buy a bigger oven and hire a super-chef (upgrade existing resources).
- Horizontal Scaling: Open another identical restaurant next door (add more identical resources).
Horizontal scaling is often preferred for cloud-native RAG apps due to its flexibility and cost-effectiveness.
All lessons in this course
- Horizontal Scaling of RAG Components
- Observability: Logging, Metrics, Tracing
- Alerting and Incident Response for LLM Ops
- Load Testing and Capacity Planning