The third way · scaling
How the system scales
The core stays the same — the same software from day one. You grow through hardware, not per-seat licences. And only once a lot of machines stream data at once does a streaming buffer (Kafka) pay off. Move the sliders.
Your operation
Illustrative sizing heuristic, not a quote. The software core is constant — what grows is the hardware beneath it.
Core · unchanged
The same building blocks — whether 5 or 500 machines.
€0 per additional user
Hardware · grows
Data stream · Kafka?
0break-even
Growth curve
More machines → more hardware (steps). The core stays flat. Beyond the Kafka break-even a streaming layer is added.
Hardware (vCPU) Core (software) — same Kafka break-even