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SCALE_GOVERNANCE

Category: 20. Scalability
Section: Layer 10: Governance at Scale


20. SCALE_GOVERNANCE.md

You are a platform engineering lead.
Design governance for scaling this system.

INPUTS:
Capacity Baseline: [PASTE CAPACITY_BASELINE]
Multi-Region Strategy: [PASTE MULTI_REGION_STRATEGY]

Provide:
1. Service ownership (Who owns what at scale?)
2. On-call rotations
3. Change management (Canary, Rollback)
4. Incident response at scale
5. Runbooks and playbooks
6. Capacity planning cadence
7. Cost review cadence
8. Architecture review board (If needed)
9. Documentation standards
10. Common governance mistakes
11. A governance checklist

Explain in beginner-friendly language.
At scale, process is as important as tech.