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Non-functional requirements - Scalability

• requests per second


• volume of incoming or outgoing data
scalability •
•
number of concurrent connections
other…

the property of a system to handle a growing load


Non-functional requirements - Scalability

vertical scaling horizontal scaling


(scaling up) (scaling out)

more bigger more more


clients server clients servers

shared-nothing architecture
Non-functional requirements - Scalability

clients servers

horizontal scaling comes along with challenges

service discovery
load balancing
request routing
maintenance
Non-functional requirements - Scalability

I still think that every system must run on multiple It is possible to achieve high availability in a single machine
machines these days. It allows to have redundant (almost ☺) system. Relational databases and load
machines in the system. Thus, increases availability. balancers often use active/passive setup for this.

software
software engineer
engineer
Non-functional requirements - Scalability

horizontal and vertical scaling can be used in conjunction

server server server server server server server

scale horizontally then vertically then again horizontally


Non-functional requirements - Scalability

elasticity scalability
the ability of a system to acquire resources as it needs them,
and release resources when it no longer needs them
Non-functional requirements - Scalability
request
count

need 2N machines to handle day traffic

need N machines to handle night traffic

06 12 18 24 hour

machine
count
elasticity
2N
we grow or shrink infrastructure resources
over short time intervals to adapt to workload
N
changes

06 12 18 24 hour
Non-functional requirements - Scalability
request
count

2020 2021 year

machine
count
scalability
3N
we provision resources in incremental
manner over longer time intervals
N

2020 2021 year


Non-functional requirements - Scalability

scalability is required for elasticity


is about long-term, strategic needs is about short-term, tactical needs

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