6. SCALABILITY
In electronics (including hardware,
communication and software), 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
enlarged to accommodate that growth.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalability
14. YOUTUBE
• Founded in 2005 in a garage
• Officially launched in December 2005 with
8 million videos watched per day
• 100 million views a day in July 2006
• Over 4 Billion videos viewed per day in
January 2012
• 72 hours of video uploaded every minute
in May 2012
x 12 in
7 month!
15. YOUTUBE
1 mio
10 mio
100 mio
1'000 mio
10'000 mio
2005
2006
2012
YouTube videos watched per day
Notice the logarithmic scale, bro?
16. TWITTER
• Founded in March 2006
• Officially launched in July 2006
• 400’000 tweets per quarter in 2007
• 100 million tweets per quarter in 2008
• 65 million tweets per day in June 2010
• 140 million tweets per day in March
2011, 1’600 tweets per second
x 230 in
12 month!
18. BETTER BE PREPARED
Rewriting your web app to be scalable
and
at the same time scale it to accommodate
a 10 to 100 fold of customers
in 12 month?
Sounds like a challenge!