Building Evolutionary Architectures

Degrade Gracefully

PenultimateWidgets is proud of how popular their website has become and want to make sure the site performance degrades gracefully as scale increases.

• Categories: holistic, continuous
• Requirements:
• the enterprise architects have defined thresholds for acceptable performance degradation under scale, and the architecture should maintain performance and scale within those parameters
• Additional Context:
• the architecture support good incremental change and modern DevOps practices