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Cloud Computing, 2nd Edition
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Cloud Computing, 2nd Edition

by Kris Jamsa
March 2022
Intermediate to advanced
400 pages
10h 10m
English
Jones & Bartlett Learning
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Introducing Scalability

When they launch a new website, many developers have visions of having created the next Google, Amazon, or Facebook. Unfortunately, the developers have no way of knowing who the actual user demand will be. Should the site become widely used, it may require additional servers or disk-storage capacity.

Scalability defines a site or application’s ability to use additional resources on demand. The site or application may scale up to utilize additional resources when the system is experiencing high user demand and may later scale down its resource usage when the user demand declines. The ability for the cloud to scale up and down in this way, on demand, is described using the terms cloud elasticity. In other words, the cloud ...

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