The stream-processing platform should support horizontal scalability. That means adding more physical servers to the cluster in the event of a higher incoming data load to maintain throughput SLA. This way, the performance of processing can be increased by adding more nodes rather than adding more CPUs and memory to the existing servers; this is called vertical scalability.
Horizontal scalability
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