Scalability plan

A scalability plan is a document that describes all the different components of your application and the necessary steps to scale the application as soon as it is needed. The scalability plan is a live document, so you need to review it and keep it updated frequently.

There is no master template ready to fill as the scalability plan is more an internal document with all the information you need to make the right decision about the scalability of your app. Our recommendation is to use the scalability plan as your guide, including all the contents of your capacity plan, you can even add how to hire new workers to this document.

Some of the sections you can have in your scalability plan can be the following ones:

• An overview of the application and its components
• Comparison of cloud providers or places where you will deploy your application
• Resume of your capacity plan and theoretical limits of the application
• Scalability phases or steps
• Provisioning times and costs
• Organization...