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Joan observed that a server she was responsible for was slowing because of a traffic spike. The additional traffic generated too many requests, consuming all of the server’s memory. As a result, requests had to wait longer before being processed. Because this delay was unacceptable to the business, Joan added extra virtual memory to the server to improve performance. What is this feature called?

Explanation

Scalability is the ability to increase or decrease resources allocated to a workload as demand changes. Increasing memory capacity for a single server is vertical scaling, a form of scalability.

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