© Chander Dhall 2018
Chander DhallScalability Patternshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-1073-4_1

1. Introduction

Chander Dhall1 
(1)
Austin, Texas, USA
 

In this world of ever-increasing data usage, scalability has become more of a necessity than a luxury. This can very well be attributed to the tremendous growth in the size of smartphones and tablet users. According to Internet Live Stats ( www.InternetLiveStats.com ), we have about 3,915,062,366 users (as of May 9, 2018). With the world population being roughly 7.6 billion users, this number will only continue to grow. With the advent of mobile devices and the constant dependency on these, there is a big need of a “Scalability First” approach or “Cloud Oriented Architecture.”

Scaling Up has traditionally ...

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