Scalability Risk Assessment

1. During due diligence, the team identifies that the monolithic session store becomes a bottleneck above 500 concurrent users. The target company expects 5x user growth post-acquisition. What has the team identified?

2. A component that, if it fails, causes the entire system to stop working — with no fallback or redundancy — is called:

3. The team asks: 'At what user count does the current architecture start degrading performance?' They are identifying the:

4. The due diligence report notes: 'At current growth, the database will reach maximum capacity within 9 months without infrastructure investment.' What risk is being described?

5. The team estimates that addressing the identified scalability bottlenecks would require 6 months of engineering effort and $500K in infrastructure investment. This estimate is included in the due diligence report to: