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The London Ambulance System and the online tax return system of Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs are two systems that have experienced significant problems of scalability. However, we've never seen a precise discussion of their scalability concerns. In this column we use those systems to illustrate how the scalability of software systems can be more precisely understood and characterized, and we...