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Introduction to scalability

Describes the different deployment scenarios to build up the scaling out options

Scalability is the ability of a system, network, or process to handle a growing amount of work in a capable manner or its ability to be expanded to accommodate that growth. For SDL LiveContent Architect, scalability refers to the ability of the system to increase capabilities like:

  • Total web output;
  • Web services output;
  • Total computation output for the items executing on the sever like publish, translations, etc.

The how to scale out guide will start from a simple case and granularly build up the complexity and scaling out specialization by explaining different cases.