Scalability Basics, application to systems, teams and processes / Caceres Devops Days 2020

A few days ago, I had the great luck to be able to present at the DevOps Days Caceres 2020, together with Fran Ortiz, a presentation about system and team scalability. We presented several mental models that help to understand or design scalable systems and organizations.

Video (spanish)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPqHK5fjJ10

 

Slides

Original document

 References:

• Scalability is Quantifiable: The Universal Scalability Law,Baron Schwartz
• Queueing Theory in Practice, Eben Freeman
• Coherence Penalty for Humans, Michael Nygard
• Applying the USL to Organizations, Adrian Colyer
• Applying the USL to Distributed Systems, Neil J. Gunther
• Applied Performance Theory, Kavya Joshi
• Super Sizing Your Servers and the Payback Trap, Neil J. Gunther

Related:

• DevopsDays Cáceres Youtube channel All the videos from the conference
• DevOps Days Caceres 2020