Scalability
Understand scalability and its importance in system design.
The ability of a system to handle an increasing amount of workload without compromising performanceis known as scalability. A search engine, for example, must accommodate increasing numbers of users as well as the amount of data it indexes.
The workload can be of different types. For example:
- Request workload: The number of requests served by the system
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