Vertical Scaling / Cost/Limit

Kind: tension

Record: tension:cost-limit-vertical-scaling

Canonical: Schema

"vertical-scaling" (performance-core layer) is traded against "Cost/Limit" (performance-core layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Cost/Limit" and choosing an explicit operating point.

Listed in Tensions, after Horizontal Scaling / Distributed Coordination and before Elasticity / Warm-Up Latency.

In tension with

• Vertical Scaling
• Cost/Limit

Mechanism

• irreducible-tradeoff

Linked from

• Scalability / Performance / Optimization
• Resolution mechanisms