#scaling

Develop franchise model. Components: 1. Proven concept and unit economics. 2. Franchise agreement (legal document). 3. Franchise fee structure (initial + ongoing royalties). 4. Training program for franchisees. 5. Operations manual (detailed SOPs). 6. Marketing support and brand guidelines. 7. Territory rights. 8. Quality control and audits. Requires FDD (Franchise Disclosure Document). Scale through others' capital. Maintain brand consistency.

Scale through process documentation. Approach: 1. Document recurring processes. 2. Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs). 3. Decision-making frameworks. 4. Tools and system guides. 5. Video walkthroughs. 6. Knowledge base. 7. Version control for updates. 8. Ownership assignment. Use Notion or Confluence. Document as you go. Enables delegation and consistency. Critical for growth.

Deploy and manage applications on Kubernetes with advanced orchestration and scaling strategies. Cluster architecture: 1. Master nodes: API server, etcd, controller manager, scheduler (minimum 3 for HA). 2. Worker nodes: kubelet, kube-proxy, container runtime (Docker/containerd). 3. Networking: CNI plugins (Calico, Flannel), ingress controllers (NGINX, Traefik). Workload management: 1. Deployments: rolling updates with maxUnavailable: 25%, maxSurge: 25%. 2. StatefulSets: ordered deployment for databases, persistent volume claims. 3. DaemonSets: node-level services (log collectors, monitoring agents). 4. Jobs/CronJobs: batch processing, scheduled tasks with timezone support. Resource management: 1. Resource quotas: CPU/memory limits per namespace, prevent resource exhaustion. 2. Horizontal Pod Autoscaler: target CPU 70%, memory 80%, custom metrics scaling. 3. Vertical Pod Autoscaler: right-size resource requests based on usage patterns. Security practices: 1. RBAC: role-based access control, principle of least privilege. 2. Network policies: ingress/egress rules, microsegmentation. 3. Pod Security Standards: restricted profile, security contexts, read-only filesystems. Monitoring stack: Prometheus for metrics, Grafana for visualization, AlertManager for notifications, target 99.9% uptime.