Skaalaavan
Skaalaavan is a Finnish-language term used primarily in information technology and mathematics to refer to the act or process of scaling. The word builds on the verb skaalaata (to scale or scale up) with the present-participial form skaalaava and the inflected possessive/genitive form skaalaavan, which in Norwegian-style usage appears in phrases describing the scaling action itself, such as skaalaavan toiminta or skaalaavan järjestelmän ominaisuudet.
In IT and computing, skaalaavan denotes the dynamic adjustment of system capacity to meet varying load. It
In mathematics and computer graphics, skaalaavan refers to scaling transformations that change the size of objects
Related concepts include elasticity, capacity planning, and performance tuning. While skaalaavan is commonly used in Finnish
See also: scalability, elastic scalability, auto-scaling, load balancing, capacity planning.