Elastic Scaling in Actian Avalanche By Steffen Klaebe October 4, 2019 Moving applications to the cloud, users can benefit from various opportunities the cloud environment offers. One of these opportunities is the availability of a seemingly infinite amount of resources, enabling users to match their requirements by scaling their application according to their load. Nevertheless, load may change over time and does not always follow a predictable behavior. Actian Avalanche will therefore offer a new elastic scaling feature, allowing users to quickly respond to requirement changes by scaling the system in a fast way without a shutdown. This solution brief provides a peek under the hood of the new elastic scaling feature, describing the basic concepts behind it from an engineering point of view. Check it out now! About Steffen Klaebe Steffen started his studies in computer science at the University of Ilmenau in 2014. In cooperation with Actian he wrote his bachelor and master thesis, did an internship and worked on student projects. After receiving his master's degree in 2019, he continued as a scientific member in the databases and information systems group at the University of Ilmenau in a PhD partner project with Actian.
