Cloud Computing

chapter 19

Application Scalability

SCALABILITY REFERS TO AN application’s ability to add or remove resources dynamically based on user demand. Throughout this book, you have learned that one of the greatest advantages of cloud-based applications is their ability to scale. Anticipating user demand is often a “best guess” process. In the past, developers had to release site resources (servers, CPUs, disk space) capable of meeting the anticipated initial user demand, plus growth. Often developers could not accurately project the demand, and frequently they released too few or too many resources.

Learning Objectives

This chapter examines the resource-scaling process. By the time you finish this chapter, you will be able to do the following:

•   Define ...