Horizontal Scaling / Distributed Coordination

Kind: tension

Record: tension:distributed-coordination-horizontal-scaling

Canonical: Schema

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

Listed in Tensions, after Scalability / Consistency and before Vertical Scaling / Cost/Limit.

In tension with

• Horizontal Scaling
• Distributed Coordination

Mechanism

• irreducible-tradeoff

Linked from

• Scalability / Performance / Optimization
• Resolution mechanisms