Scaling

Factors such as availability of different means of communication, easy access to information, and open world markets are resulting in businesses growing rapidly and diversifying at the same time. With this rapid growth of business, there is an ever-increasing need to accommodate an increasing client base. Scaling is one of the biggest challenges that any business faces while trying to cater for an increased user base.

Scalability is nothing but the capability of a system/program to handle the growth of work better. In other words, scalability is the ability of a system/program to scale.

Before starting the next section, let's discuss and understand scaling in detail, as this will be an integral part of our exercise as we work on transitioning from monolithic to microservices.

Scalability of a system is its capability to handle an increasing/increased load of work. There are two main strategies or types of scalability in which we can scale our application.