Security

Running applications and systems that are available to users for consumption is an important consideration for architects of any serious application. However, there is another equally important application feature that is one of the top priorities for architects, and this is the scalability of applications. Imagine situations in which applications are deployed and obtain great performance and availability with a few users, but both availability and performance suffer as users start increasing. Another situation could be when the application is performant and available, with a large number of users, but there is a certain time of the day or week, or there are special events during which the number of users spikes, and you cannot gauge or predict the number of users. Extending the previous situation, you might have provisioned the hardware and bandwidth for handling users...