Scalability – I Scale to the Moon and Back
The team is feeling more confident as they are progressing steadily with their understanding of the cloud. With monitoring in place, they get lots of data related to the performance, security, and utilization of the system. This data can also help them in planning for future workloads or defining a workload characteristic. Another important question they have in mind is whether to use the flexibility of the cloud infrastructure to handle variable traffic and to design scalable architectures.
Berta enters the office and finds that Alex is already there.
Berta: Good morning, Alex. Looks like you have come in early today.
Alex: Well, yes, relatively early. I was trying to buy a product from an online flash sale, but I could not complete the purchase. The whole process seems very slow; I thought it was because of my home network, but it is the same in the office too.