# DDIA 2nd Edition Excerpt: On Scalability

DevFeed: [DDIA 2nd Edition Excerpt: On Scalability](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/ddia-2nd-edition-excerpt-on-scalability-4877.md>)

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Author: ScyllaDB Team

Published: 2026-08-04T12:59:50Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [ScyllaDB](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/scylladb.md>)

Topics: [Scalability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/scalability.md>), [Architecture & Design](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/architecture-design.md>), [App](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/app.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>), [Database](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/database.md>)

Tags: [applications](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/applications.md>), [architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/architecture.md>), [community](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/community.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [optimization](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/optimization.md>), [scalability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scalability.md>), [scale](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scale.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/systems.md>)

## AI overview

An excerpt from the second edition of Designing Data-Intensive Applications explains scalability as a system's ability to cope with increased load. It discusses growth in users and data, trade-offs for early-stage products, architectural limits, resource expansion, and performance bottlenecks.

## Source excerpt

Martin Kleppmann and Chris Riccomini's scalability considerations for designing data-intensive applications -- from the second edition of the Designing Data-Intensive Applications book