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Scalability is not a property a system has; it is the set of mechanisms it has for coping with a change in load.

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  1. Martin Kleppmann

    Computer science researcher at Cambridge

    Scalability is just like what mechanisms we have for dealing with changes in load. If load increases, how can we add computing capacity to a system, for example, so that the system still continues working?

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