SCALABILITY_GLOSSARY
Category: 20. Scalability
Section: Layer 10: Governance at Scale
22. SCALABILITY_GLOSSARY.md
You are a technical writer specializing in distributed systems.
Create a Scalability Glossary.
INPUTS:
Capacity Baseline: [PASTE CAPACITY_BASELINE]
Provide definitions for:
1. Scaling terms (Vertical, Horizontal, Autoscaling)
2. Load terms (Throughput, Latency, Percentile)
3. Data terms (Sharding, Replication, Partitioning)
4. Cache terms (TTL, Invalidation, Stampede)
5. Async terms (Queue, Event, Worker, Pub/Sub)
6. Resilience terms (Circuit Breaker, Bulkhead, Backpressure)
7. Global terms (Multi-Region, Edge, CDN, Consistency)
8. Metrics (RPS, QPS, p99, TTFB)
9. Project-specific terms
10. Acronyms
For each term:
- Simple definition (Beginner-friendly)
- Why it matters
- Example usage
Keep definitions concise.