Improve your reliability with modern operations practices: Capacity planning and scaling
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Success and the growth that comes with it can be just as much a challenge to your reliability as any other factor. Learn ways to plan for, handle, and estimate costs for your success while still retaining the reliability you need.
Learning objectives
In this module you will:
- Learn about scalability and the scalability/reliability relationship.
- Understand the role of capacity planning in preparing for growth.
- Learn basic concepts and fundamental terms related to scaling.
- Eliminate single points of failure.
- Understand the different kinds of growth and how to respond to them.
- Be able to measure capacity in the cloud.
- Catch issues with service limits and quotas before they emerge using Azure tools.
- Understand important steps to take before beginning work on scaling.
- List techniques for making an application more scalable including decoupling, queues, in-memory caching and database sharding.
- Learn about the Azure tools that make it possible to take your application or service global.
Prerequisites
- Familiarity with the previous modules in the Improve your reliability with modern operations practices learning path is recommended.
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