Scalable

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Scalable is an adjective that describes applications or systems that are able to scale to large amounts of users.

Examples:

  • A database that completely locks out every other user when someone is using it is NOT scalable.
  • Any computer system that runs ATM and bank transactions must be highly scalable.
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