Practical Azure SQL Database for Modern Developers: Building Applications in the Microsoft Cloud

© Davide Mauri, Silvano Coriani, Anna Hoffman, Sanjay Mishra, Jovan Popovic 2021

D. Mauri et al.Practical Azure SQL Database for Modern Developershttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6370-9_7

7. Scalability, Consistency, and Performance

Davide Mauri¹ , Silvano Coriani², Anna Hoffman³, Sanjay Mishra¹ and Jovan Popovic⁴

(1)

Redmond, WA, USA

(2)

Legnano, Milano, Italy

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Sherman Oaks, CA, USA

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Belgrade, Serbia

 

Scalability, as generally defined, is the property of a system to handle a growing amount of work by adding resources to the system. In cloud platforms, where massive standardization and “economy of scale” principles are driving hardware design, the ability to just add resources to a single instance of a service may be limited. That is why, in addition ...