Scalability and elasticity
Scalability has always been a primary factor while designing a solution. If you ask any enterprise about their existing and new solutions, most of the time they like to plan ahead for scalability. Scalability means giving your system the ability to handle growing workloads, and it can apply to multiple layers, such as the application server, web app, and database.
As most applications nowadays are web-based, let's also talk about elasticity. This is not only about growing out your system by adding more capabilities, but also shrinking it to save on unnecessary costs. Especially with the adoption of the public cloud, it has become easy to grow and shrink your workload quickly, with elasticity now replacing scalability. Traditionally, there are two modes of scaling:
- Horizontal scaling: Horizontal scaling is becoming increasingly popular as computing power has become an exponentially cheaper commodity in the last decade. In horizontal scaling...
