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 ## Theodolite Analysis Tools
 
 Theodolite's benchmarking method creates a *scalability graph* allowing to draw conclusions about the scalability of a stream processing engine or its deployment. A scalability graph shows how resource demand evolves with an increasing workload. Theodolite provides Jupyter notebooks for creating such scalability graphs based on benchmarking results from the execution framework. More information can be found in [Theodolite analysis tool](analysis).
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+## How to Cite
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+If you use Theodolite, please cite
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+> Henning, Sören and Hasselbring, Wilhelm. (2021). Theodolite: Scalability Benchmarking of Distributed Stream Processing Engines in Microservice Architectures. Big Data Research, Volume 25. DOI: [10.1016/j.bdr.2021.100209](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bdr.2021.100209). [arXiv:2009.00304](https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.00304).