8.10.4 - Software Scalability
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Practice Questions
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What is Amdahl's Law?
💡 Hint: Think about how parallel and sequential tasks interact.
Define multithreading.
💡 Hint: Consider how tasks can divide work among cores.
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What does Amdahl's Law illustrate?
💡 Hint: Think about the balance between parallel and serialized tasks.
True or False: Multithreading can improve the performance of an application on multicore systems.
💡 Hint: Consider the execution of tasks simultaneously.
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Create a scenario where software scalability fails due to Amdahl's Law and outline potential solutions.
💡 Hint: Focus on the percentage of parallel vs. sequential tasks.
Explain how scalability affects evolution in software technology and provide an example where traditional methods might hamper performance.
💡 Hint: Consider how modern cloud approaches tackle old challenges.
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