3 years ago

Category: Business, Database, Data, Infrastructure

Join the DZone community and get the full member experience. It is not uncommon to see companies trying to address the issue by throwing more hardware at the task – often to no effect.

In the end, it can be boiled down to the balance between performance and resource availability.

In technical terms, this is known as SPOF (single point of failure), and, in the case of the digital-first market, it can easily become a decisive blow to the business.

It is tempting to think that an app can be made scalable simply by throwing more computing power in the firebox to keep it running.