skaalautuvaksi
Skaalautuvaksi is a Finnish term used in information technology, business and software development to denote something that can be scaled or is in the process of becoming scalable. The word is formed from skaala meaning scale and the verb skaalautua meaning to become scalable, with the translative suffix -vaksi indicating a change of state. In Finnish technical discourse, skaalautuvaksi is commonly applied to systems, architectures, processes and organizations that can absorb growing demand by proportionally increasing capacity or reorganizing resources.
In practical use, skaalautuvaksi describes both the design goal and the current state of readiness of a
Key characteristics associated with skaalautuvaksi systems include modular architecture, stateless or loosely coupled services, horizontal scalability,
See also: scalability, elasticity, cloud computing, microservices, load balancing.