Are you a proud business owner who offers services in high demand? Then you need to have a look at this.
To meet customer expectations and provide ongoing support, enterprises must prioritize quality software. As customers shift toward online support, you need to ensure your customized software is prepared to manage your large customer base and deliver continuous service. This is where scalability comes. As an essential support for software application development, it enables applications to acquire excellence consistently.
Wondering how scalability helps boost your customer service and empower your software application? Then read the following article, where you can learn what scalability is and how it helps empower your business.
What is Application Scalability
Application Scalability is nothing but a software that runs smoothly even under huge stress and meets the growing demand. It is achieved via modern design and core architecture of the software that adapts to the rising technology and demand.
Scalability enables software to run smoothly, even under heavy traffic, and perform other operations without any downgrades or errors. From custom software application development to legacy modernization, scalability helps enhance software excellence instantly.
To invest in scalability, you have two ways. Let’s have a look at its different types and what it brings to the table.
Types of Application Scalability
Based on the approach and resources spent, the Scalability services are divided into two. They are,
- Horizontal Scalability
- Vertical Scalability
Horizontal Scalability
To improve app performance and to stay resilient, Horizontal Scalability adds multiple machines to your software systems. This includes adding more physical servers, firewalls, and a lot more. Besides this, using load balancing and computing support, it will split the workload of your software among all servers for a seamless function.
Following this approach, businesses can easily upgrade their systems, bring flexibility, improve performance, reduce long-term costs, and much more.
Vertical Scalability
Another approach to Scalability is vertical. This method is fully focused on improving the existing resources of the system to achieve progress. This includes upgrading RAM, servers, and other components to balance the workload. As an easy solution to software upgrades, vertical scalability has limitations when compared to horizontal scalability.
Benefits of Scalability
Now you have seen its approach, let’s briefly see what the benefits that scalability offers to your business are.
- Improved User experience: Application Scalability helps improve the performance of the software during high traffic surges. This fosters uninterrupted services to customers, which creates a positive experience for end users. Which results in satisfied customers and creating repeat & loyal customers.
- Handling High traffic: Scalable software runs smoothly during heavy traffic surges. Leveraging this business can focus on the holiday and promotional events in style, and close valuable leads and customers to your sales cycle.
- Cost-effective after launch services: Investing in Scalability can be upfront at first. However, it saves a considerable amount in maintenance and optimizations, and helps prevent overload risks in the present and future that affect customer satisfaction.
- Fostering customer engagement: Early application scalability brings various benefits to your sales cycle. A scalable, perfect application can foster seamless services to your customers without disruption. Thus, it helps attract customers, foster solutions, and even create loyal customers for your business.
Key Considerations to Focus on Scaling Software Applications
Application Scalability isn’t just about server stability. It requires strategic planning at every stage of development. From software architecture to performance, here are the critical factors to consider to ensure your custom application can grow with your business.
Software Architecture
To scale up applications, businesses should focus on shaping the software’s architecture. At SGS, we follow a focused approach called modular and layered architecture. It is an approach similar to microservices, focusing on upgrading individual modules of a software when needed.
For example, if your software is slowing down on a specific module (like login), that module can be upscaled without affecting the system. This way, you can save money and scale your application easily without disruption.
Performance Testing
To make scalability more powerful, software experts conduct performance testing. In this phase, your custom software application will go under load and stress testing to learn software behaviour. By doing constant testing, the software team will find potential risks and errors in the software and address them with précised measures for application scalability.
Cloud Development
To deliver real development and to enhance business operations, the scalability team brings in the Cloud solution. By integrating cloud solutions into the software, you can enable the autoscaling feature. With Cloud autoscaling, your software can handle heavy loads and data spikes to deliver convenient services to your customers. Additionally, it helps you manage the resource allocation and cloud computing support to make operations easier over the internet.
Database Design
Data being the primary element of the software, we at SGS help you build a scalable data layer and database for your operations. Utilizing our solid partnership with Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle, and Amazon AWS, we implement SQL or NoSQL services to your software based on your needs. Our services also include implementing indexing, caching, and partitioning to foster scalable database scheme design for your software.
Security & Compliance
To deliver constant and stable services to customers, businesses must invest in Security services. By protecting the software from multiple threats and other potential risks, it helps scale up the application's lifetime.
We conduct a regular audit and check security logs for vulnerabilities to protect the architecture and data of the software. By scaling up security measures, you can reduce the maintenance costs of the software and easily handle risks in the future.
How SGS Helps Scale Applications to Businesses
By building a solid partnership and harnessing the latest technology, we at SGS Technologie help clients with scalable solutions. Our scalability solution for custom software applications and new architecture consists of the following approach.
- Discovery & Goal Alignment:
- At first, we shadow and understand your business objectives, current challenges, user needs, and future growth plans.
- Architecture planning:
- Based on the gathered requirements, we design a scalable system architecture for your software. We bring the industry standards, microservices, or cloud-native, that support growth and flexibility in your ecosystem.
- Performance & Load Testing:
- To improve functionality, we simulate a real-world traffic load test before launch and see how your app handles growth. Then, we analyze the results and address risks right away to increase the application speed and agility.
- Secure Deployment & Cloud Enablement:
- Next, we deploy cloud solutions to your existing application. We go for the industry cloud leaders like AWS or Azure to enable cloud auto-scaling to handle data spikes and other purposes.
- Security & Resilience:
- For security, we use HIPAA, GDPR, and CJIS to protect your data and users with role-based access. That includes encryption and compliance.
- Code Design:
- We optimize your software code so that it will be clean, modular, and designed for growth. We build components for easy expansion, maintenance, and integration to reduce future development costs.
- Post-Launch Support & Optimization
- After deployment, we provide continuous monitoring, performance tuning, and custom solutions for your software application to ensure the application scales smoothly with growing demand.
The upshifting market and customers with over expectations have created a competitive area for businesses. So, if you want to stay on the radar of business, it's recommended to scale your application and business accordingly. If you’re serious about long-term success and fostering customer satisfaction. Contact us and let's connect with our professionals to scale up your application.
