Efficiently handling increased load without degrading performance
Notes
Timothy Ferner TBC
Don’t optimize until you have measured.
Scalability focuses on a system’s ability to handle increased load efficiently, without degrading performance. It involves anticipating and addressing growth needs proactively.
TakeAways
- 📌 Achieve scalability through strategic planning and architectural design
- ⚒️ ↔️ Horizontal scaling: Adding more machines/resources.
- 🔄 🔼 Vertical scaling: Upgrading existing machines’ capabilities.
- 🔁 Load balancing: Distributing workload evenly across resources.
- 💡 Autoscale features enable automatic scaling based on predefined rules or real-time metrics.
Process
- Identify and measure current system capacity.
- Anticipate future growth needs based on trends and projections
- Design scalable architecture with horizontal/vertical scaling options.
- Implement load balancing for efficient resource distribution.
- Monitor performance metrics regularly and optimize as needed.
Thoughts
- 🌐 Cloud adoption: Leverage cloud-based solutions for easier scalability.
- 💻 Microservices: Adopt Microservices architecture to improve scalability and maintainability.