Chapter 10. Programming for Scalability
Introduction
Providing software that lets people do their jobs is usability; providing software that lets 10,000 people do their jobs is scalability. The term scalability encompasses many facets of software. It means stability, reliability, and efficient use of one or more computer resources. The goal of a scalable system is that it must be available for use at all times and remain highly responsive regardless of how many people use the system.
Scalability, with respect to software architectures, has also come to mean extensibility and modularity. This simply means that when a software system needs to scale upward in complexity, it does not need to be overhauled with each addition. In the following pages, ...
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