Scalability
Adaptive systems for shifting circumstances
Scalability refers to the ability of a system to handle an increasing amount of work by adding resources as required. It is one of the key advantages of cloud computing, allowing businesses to pay strictly based on usage (rather than ongoing server costs) and to rapidly meet rising demand; both short-term spikes and long-term increases.
Where conventional server capacity based on hardware is measured in large, costly jumps (buying a server, upgrading it, replacing it or adding a second server), cloud computing enables business to scale up and down quickly and autonomously based on hour-to-hour need.
Traffic load-balancers, serverless frameworks and relational databases are all examples of scalable cloud computing components; whereas EC2, Kubernetes and Autoscaler are specific systems to help increase or decrease load accordingly based on requirement at any given point in time.
Your infrastructure should scale with your business
Scalability helps business keep running costs in check by dynamically growing and shrinking allocated resources as they’re needed, and then only billing for actual usage rather than total server cost. Similarly, short-term spikes of high activity don’t require long-term, costly solutions to manage.
A scalable infrastructure plan pays dividends when set up early in a business, as the elastic architecture will grow and scale with the business (number of customers x number of products = rising demand), meaning the platform will not need to be redeveloped or reconfigured at each growth stage, reducing long-term technical debt.
A platform that is scalable will maintain a consistently-high level of performance under heavy load, automatically allocation additional resource as needed to meet demand and reducing the chance of service loss and keeping the end-user experience positive.
Releaseworks® helps you scale
Our cloud engineers are highly experienced in designing, building and maintaining scalable, elastic infrastructure that pays for itself over time; helping companies avoid the technical debt associated with tearing down and rebuilding architecture at each growth stage of your business.
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