Chapter 7 Scalability and Performance

Scalability goes hand in hand with performance. A scalable system is one that maintains performance even as the load on it increases.

The cloud makes massive resource pools available to service developers to aid with scalability. This means that in theory, anyone can design and deploy global-scale services in the cloud without significant up-front investments—to start small, grow rapidly, and become big. This chapter discusses scalability and performance and introduces some key concepts, tools, and skills you must master to design scalable Service Fabric applications.

Scalability Concepts

Scaling a service in the cloud differs from scaling a service in a traditional datacenter. Before discussing specific ...

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