Define: "Scalable" in Business
Multi-headcount capital waste
"It works for 10 users but will crash at 100. Let DevOps handle it."
The capacity of a system to handle a growing amount of work.
What does "Scalable" actually mean?
"It barely works for 10 users right now, but we'll worry about that when it crashes at 10,000."
"We need to ensure the backend database architecture is fully scalable before launch."
"The developers promised the new microservices architecture was highly scalable, right up until the moment it encountered its second concurrent user."
By The Chief Waste Officer
18 years in the corporate trenches quantifying waste so you don't have to.
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