scalability
Handles increasing load
Scalability is the capacity to grow or shrink in response to demand.
The term dominates technology and business contexts: a scalable system handles increased load without breaking, a scalable business model works whether you have ten customers or ten million.
The startup's main selling point was scalability.
Something that "doesn't scale" works at small volumes but fails when expanded.
Divisibility into independent units
- redundancyNeedless duplication
- partitioningDividing into sections
- shardingSplitting data horizontally
- clusteringForming concentrated groups
replication · distribution · microservices · containerization · decoupling · abstraction · layering · horizontal
Processing rate over time
- bandwidthData transmission capacity
- loadCarried weight or burden
- headroomOverhead vertical space
- volumeAmount of space filled
capability · potential · limit · threshold · tolerance · capacity · bottleneck · concurrency
Ability to adapt easily
- elasticityTendency to resume original form
- resilienceCapacity to recover quickly
- reconfigurabilityCapacity to be reshaped
- adjustabilityCapacity for alteration
responsiveness · agility · dynamic · on-demand · cloud-native · serverless · self-healing · adaptive
Increase in scope
- growthIncrease in size
- enlargementIncrease in size
- extensionAdded part or duration
- amplificationIncrease in intensity
broadening · proliferation · multiplication · augmentation · increment · surge · exponential · acceleration
modularity
Divisibility into independent units
- redundancyNeedless duplication
- partitioningDividing into sections
- shardingSplitting data horizontally
clustering · replication · distribution · microservices · containerization · decoupling · abstraction · layering · horizontal · vertical
throughput
Processing rate over time
volume · capability · potential · limit · threshold · tolerance · capacity · bottleneck · concurrency · latency
flexibility
Ability to adapt easily
- elasticityTendency to resume original form
- resilienceCapacity to recover quickly
- reconfigurabilityCapacity to be reshaped
adjustability · responsiveness · agility · dynamic · on-demand · cloud-native · serverless · self-healing · adaptive · graceful
expansion
Increase in scope
- growthIncrease in size
- enlargementIncrease in size
- extensionAdded part or duration
amplification · broadening · proliferation · multiplication · augmentation · increment · surge · exponential · acceleration · ramp-up
- operations planningcapacity planning, resource allocation, forecasting, capacity utilization, production planning
- optimizationoptimization, caching, optimum, indexing, prefetching
- entrepreneurshipentrepreneur, startup, founder, co-founder, cofounder
- techsoftware, hardware, code, coding, programming
- business jargonacronym, buzzword, drill down, low-hanging fruit, move the needle
- office jargonsynergy, circle back, touch base, deep dive, action item
scalabilityrigidity
State of being unbending
inflexibility · fixedness · inelasticity · immutability · constraint
scalabilitylimitation
Bound on extent
bottleneck · stagnation · ceiling · capacity limit · dead end
scalabilityinflexibility
Quality of being unbending
rigidity · brittleness · inadaptability · fragility · ossification
scale, scales, escalate, escalator, upscale, scaling, scaled, escalation, downscale