Reactive Scaling
Reactive Scaling is a software architecture concept that involves designing systems to automatically and elastically adjust their resource usage in response to varying workloads, while maintaining responsiveness and resilience. It combines principles from reactive programming and elastic scaling to handle dynamic demand efficiently. This approach ensures that applications can scale up or down seamlessly without manual intervention, optimizing performance and cost.
Developers should learn and use Reactive Scaling when building cloud-native applications, microservices, or distributed systems that experience unpredictable traffic patterns, such as e-commerce platforms, streaming services, or IoT applications. It helps prevent over-provisioning of resources during low demand and avoids performance degradation during spikes, ensuring high availability and cost-effectiveness in environments like AWS, Azure, or Kubernetes.