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Application Scalability

Is the application scalable in terms of software also. If yes then give an example for scalability

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Last Update: May 13, 2008 Asked by: deepaksporty

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Submitted by: parsu

Yes scalibility is definitely alsi in temrs of software.example are of websites like airlines ,railways where huge number of users hit everyday..so one day the organization wld have 2 decide thast as the number of users is increasing alarmingly we have to improve the aplication's ability to cope wiht such huge no of users. for that many things can be done ..the database structure may be improved by using better and clever procedures,,better indices ,better memory mgmt etc

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Shivajali

March 24, 2008 07:47:16

chinni23

Member Since: March 2008 Contribution: 1

RE: Application Scalability

Application scalability -Characteristics of the product under test related to the number of users the product can support. It is to determine whether the product scales with the workload as the network grew in no. and complexity.These characteristics of a product under test may be related to user load, network , data capacity and/or other failure modes related to product's inability to scale beyond a particular level…

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April 18, 2008 06:51:02

deepaksporty

Member Since: September 2007 Contribution: 26

RE: Application Scalability

Hi Chinni,

Thanks for replying but what you've told is the definition of scalability and we generally associate scalability with the hardware configuration. What I wanted to know is that whether we can make the application scalable modifying only the software without modifying the hardware...?

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May 13, 2008 02:31:44

parsu

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Yes scalibility is definitely alsi in temrs of software.example are of websites like airlines ,railways where huge number of users hit everyday..so one day the organization wld have 2 decide thast as the number of users is increasing alarmingly we have to improve the aplication's ability to cope wiht such huge no of users. for that many things can be done ..the database structure may be improved by using better and clever procedures,,better indices ,better memory mgmt etc

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