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Scaling Effects

Explore how scaling effects impact distributed systems as the number of instances grows. Understand problems with point-to-point communications and discover strategies such as broadcast, multicast, and publish/subscribe that help maintain system performance and stability in production environments.

Scaling effect

In Biology, the square-cube law explains why we’ll never see elephant-sized spiders. The bug’s weight scales with volume, so it goes as O(n3n^{3}). The strength of the leg scales with the area of the cross section, so it goes as O(n2n^{2} ...