Scalability
noun
The ability of a system or process to handle growing amounts of work, or its potential to be enlarged.
The scalability of our website became an issue once we started experiencing high levels of traffic.
Often appears as...
- vertical scalability
- horizontal scalability
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Technical
noun
The ability of a system or process to handle growing amounts of work, or its potential to be enlarged.
The scalability of our website became an issue once we started experiencing high levels of traffic.
Often appears as...
- vertical scalability
- horizontal scalability
Usage tips
Technical
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Pro Tip 1/3Tech Importance
In tech discussions, 'scalability' highlights how well a system adapts to growth.
Before launch, we must ensure the scalability of our app.
Pro Tip 2/3Potential to Grow
'Scalability' suggests not just current performance, but future growth potential.
Investors are interested in the scalability of the start-up.
Pro Tip 3/3More Users
Think of 'scalability' as a system's capacity to handle more users over time.
As our user base grows, we're focusing on improving scalability.
Pro Tip 1/3Tech Importance
In tech discussions, 'scalability' highlights how well a system adapts to growth.
Before launch, we must ensure the scalability of our app.
Pro Tip 2/3Potential to Grow
'Scalability' suggests not just current performance, but future growth potential.
Investors are interested in the scalability of the start-up.
Pro Tip 3/3More Users
Think of 'scalability' as a system's capacity to handle more users over time.
As our user base grows, we're focusing on improving scalability.
Pro Tip 1/3Tech Importance
In tech discussions, 'scalability' highlights how well a system adapts to growth.
Before launch, we must ensure the scalability of our app.
Pro Tip 2/3Potential to Grow
'Scalability' suggests not just current performance, but future growth potential.
Investors are interested in the scalability of the start-up.
Pro Tip 3/3More Users
Think of 'scalability' as a system's capacity to handle more users over time.
As our user base grows, we're focusing on improving scalability.
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But you can also use seaweed to take a seaweed bath, it's supposed to be good for your skin; I can't testify to that, but you can do it. The scalability is the big thing about seaweed farming. You know, if we could cover nine percent of the world's ocean in seaweed farms,
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Anil Gupta: India's...
But if I had to get a match to match, obviously, I would need a different design of a cellphone. So what we're saying is that scalability should not become an enemy of sustainability. There must be a place in the world for solutions that are only relevant for a locality,
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Exodus, a new design...
of the informal markets from micro to a macro scale so I then went to the markets actually again based on this model and identified issues that I wanted to improve such as shelter seating just a general clutter and scalability and then came up with a
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Geoffrey West: The...
And that is one of the main reasons life is so resilient and robust -- scalability. We're going to discuss that in a moment more. But you know, at a local level, you scale; everybody in this room is scaled. That's called growth.
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Equipping change makers...
working breaking down the walls between their organizations in working my alliance working partnership to promote a social impact in another levels of scalability so be a synapse entrepreneurs is one important goal for
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How to restore a...
belongs to the state people say it belongs to me it belongs to everyone and then we apply all these other principles like transparency professional management measurable results scalability replicability etc what we
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Manu Prakash: A 50-cent...
to be able to diagnose why they are sick? And that's primarily because scalability of the diagnostics is completely out of reach. And remember that one billion.
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Creating wind energy...
to be answered of course starting of that of scalability and that of compatibility with the existing grid but the test that
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The Future of Fashion –...
Those all fail. Quality, cost or scalability reasons tank those ideas. And that's what brought me to the world of fungi. I'm going to assume you all know what mushrooms are. I'm going to show you some mushrooms on the side of a dead tree. And I'm much more interested in what's happening just beneath the surface. Inside that tree are millions of stringy little strands
Video examples
How do you build a...
which has all the elements we require for scalability and can be dropped in as part of a larger array to make a computer what remains is to fabricate complex structures that can actually implement this computer and advances are being made there too in red I've highlighted the regions where the atoms
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Can seaweed help curb...
But you can also use seaweed to take a seaweed bath, it's supposed to be good for your skin; I can't testify to that, but you can do it. The scalability is the big thing about seaweed farming. You know, if we could cover nine percent of the world's ocean in seaweed farms,
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Anil Gupta: India's...
But if I had to get a match to match, obviously, I would need a different design of a cellphone. So what we're saying is that scalability should not become an enemy of sustainability. There must be a place in the world for solutions that are only relevant for a locality,
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Exodus, a new design...
of the informal markets from micro to a macro scale so I then went to the markets actually again based on this model and identified issues that I wanted to improve such as shelter seating just a general clutter and scalability and then came up with a
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Geoffrey West: The...
And that is one of the main reasons life is so resilient and robust -- scalability. We're going to discuss that in a moment more. But you know, at a local level, you scale; everybody in this room is scaled. That's called growth.
Video examples
Equipping change makers...
working breaking down the walls between their organizations in working my alliance working partnership to promote a social impact in another levels of scalability so be a synapse entrepreneurs is one important goal for
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How to restore a...
belongs to the state people say it belongs to me it belongs to everyone and then we apply all these other principles like transparency professional management measurable results scalability replicability etc what we
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Manu Prakash: A 50-cent...
to be able to diagnose why they are sick? And that's primarily because scalability of the diagnostics is completely out of reach. And remember that one billion.
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Creating wind energy...
to be answered of course starting of that of scalability and that of compatibility with the existing grid but the test that
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Andy Jassy
American Businessman
We knew that the largest consumers of infrastructure would be large enterprise because they spend more absolute dollars. But we also had a mental image of a college kid in his dorm room having the same access, the same scalability and same infrastructure costs as the largest businesses in the world.
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Douglas Rushkoff
American Journalist
Microsoft's new OS, Windows 7, may finally be a worthy successor to XP, eliminating the clutter of Vista and letting users get to what they want to use without the fuss. All this, while remaining compatible with their IT departments' demands for scalability and custom implementations.
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Gabe Newell
American Businessman
One of the things that's interesting is that the PC has always had a huge amount of scalability. It was sort of the wild dog that moved into Australia and killed all the local life because it could just adapt. There used to be these dedicated devices, like dedicated word processors.
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Vitalik Buterin
Russian Businessman
Scalability is this idea of coming up with a blockchain that can scale much larger than existing chains essentially by processing transactions in parallel. And moving away from this paradigm where every single node on the network has to process every single transaction.
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Jean-Philippe Courtois
French Businessman
The cloud scalability is just amazing. So if you are, as an example, an NGO, a social enterprise, if you really want to scale the world, the cloud is just amazing.
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Ryan Holiday
American Author
Growth-hacking is about scalability - ideally, you want your marketing efforts to bring in users, which then bring in more users.
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Jan Koum
American Businessman
I had so much fun in early days learning about networking, security, scalability and other geeky stuff.
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Gillian Tans
American Businesswoman
We believe in global scalability with local relevance.
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Karl Iagnemma
American Writer
Uniformity is the friend of scalability.
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Andy Jassy
American Businessman
We knew that the largest consumers of infrastructure would be large enterprise because they spend more absolute dollars. But we also had a mental image of a college kid in his dorm room having the same access, the same scalability and same infrastructure costs as the largest businesses in the world.
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Douglas Rushkoff
American Journalist
Microsoft's new OS, Windows 7, may finally be a worthy successor to XP, eliminating the clutter of Vista and letting users get to what they want to use without the fuss. All this, while remaining compatible with their IT departments' demands for scalability and custom implementations.
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Gabe Newell
American Businessman
One of the things that's interesting is that the PC has always had a huge amount of scalability. It was sort of the wild dog that moved into Australia and killed all the local life because it could just adapt. There used to be these dedicated devices, like dedicated word processors.
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Vitalik Buterin
Russian Businessman
Scalability is this idea of coming up with a blockchain that can scale much larger than existing chains essentially by processing transactions in parallel. And moving away from this paradigm where every single node on the network has to process every single transaction.
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Jean-Philippe Courtois
French Businessman
The cloud scalability is just amazing. So if you are, as an example, an NGO, a social enterprise, if you really want to scale the world, the cloud is just amazing.
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Ryan Holiday
American Author
Growth-hacking is about scalability - ideally, you want your marketing efforts to bring in users, which then bring in more users.
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Jan Koum
American Businessman
I had so much fun in early days learning about networking, security, scalability and other geeky stuff.
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Gillian Tans
American Businesswoman
We believe in global scalability with local relevance.
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Karl Iagnemma
American Writer
Uniformity is the friend of scalability.
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