Lexicon

Cost/Limit

Kind: quality-attribute

Layer: Performance Core

Record: lexicon:cost-limit

Canonical: Lexicon

The degree to which a bigger single machine costs disproportionately more and eventually hits a hard limit.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Constant-Factor Practicality and before CPU Cost.

Category

  • Scalability / Performance / Optimization

In tension with

  • Vertical Scaling
  • Vertical Scaling / Cost/Limit

Linked from

  • Scalability / Performance / Optimization
  • The resolutions