scalability

(noun)

The ability of a system, network, or process to handle an increasing amount of work, or its ability to be enlarged in order to accommodate that increase.

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Examples of scalability in the following topics:

  • Quality Assurance (i.e., Professional Testing)

    • In proprietary software development, it is normal to have teams of people dedicated solely to quality assurance: bug hunting, performance and scalability testing, interface and documentation checking, etc.
    • This is partly because it's hard to get volunteer labor for unglamorous work like testing, partly because people tend to assume that having a large user community gives the project good testing coverage, and, in the case of performance and scalability testing, partly because volunteers often don't have access to the necessary hardware resources anyway.
    • For example, if the internal QA team is monitoring the public ticket tracker, a developer can commit a fix for a scalability bug (which the developer may not have the resources to test herself), and then add a note to the ticket asking the QA team to see if the fix had the desired effect.

  • Have a Clear Mission Statement

    • The Apache™ Hadoop® project develops open-source software for reliable, scalable, distributed computing.

  • Technology as a Driver and Enabler of Innovation

    • Technology is innately scalable, demonstrating a consistent trend toward new innovations as a result of improving upon current ones.

  • Quality

  • Radiation from Food

    • X-ray irradiators are scalable and have deep penetration comparable to Co-60, with the added benefit that the electronic source stops radiating when switched off.

  • Research on Cognitive Tools

    • The study involved the scalability and use of computers as cognitive tools.

  • Challenges of Cognitive Tools

    • The research with the Detroit schools found many other challenges with respect to implementing cognitive tools on a scalable fashion as well.

  • Uses of the Income Statement

    • This can be a great indicator of how scalable an operation is, and the relative return an organization will see as they achieve growth.

  • The Sales Process

    • Reasons for having a well thought-out sales process include seller and buyer risk management, standardized customer interaction in sales, and scalable revenue generation.

  • Introduction to Handling Growth

    • Furthermore, even if the ratio were evenly balanced, there is still a fundamental scalability problem with the way most open source projects handle communications.