from: http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2006/03/a_word_on_scalability.html
Amazon CTO对伸缩性的解释
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What is it that we really mean by scalability? A service is said to be scalable if when we increase the resources in a system, it results in increased performance in a manner proportional to resources added. Increasing performance in general means serving more units of work, but it can also be to handle larger units of work, such as when datasets grow.
— 简单说,系统的吞吐和性能能随着投入的服务器资源数量的增加而成正比的增加
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