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I believe this term should be elaborated further. I've added more explanation. I've been inspired by Scalability definition in Reactive Manifesto: https://www.reactivemanifesto.org/glossary#Scalability Signed-off-by: Mahdi Azarboon <[email protected]>
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Scalability refers to how well a system can grow.
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That is increasing the ability to do whatever the system is supposed to do.
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That is increasing the ability to do whatever the system is supposed to do. Scalability is measured by the ratio of throughput gain to resource increase. In a well-designed scalable system both numbers should be proportional: a twofold allocation of resources should double the throughput.
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For example, a [Kubernetes](/kubernetes/) [cluster](/cluster/) scales by
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increasing or reducing the number of [containerized](/containerization/) apps,
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but that scalability depends on several factors.

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