Ifs Quote by Werner Vogels
“A service is said to be scalable if when we increase the resources in a system, it results in increased performance in a manner proportional to resources added,”
About This Quote
Source Talk: AWS Re:Invent, 2018
Scalability means performance grows proportionally with added resources.
In simple terms: More resources = more performance, proportionally.
Design systems that scale linearly.
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When to use this quote
- E‑commerce spikes
- big data processing
Key Concepts
Questions to Reflect On
- How can you test for linear scaling?
- What bottlenecks break proportional growth?
Real‑world workloads may not scale perfectly.