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Capacity planning at planet scale

Forecast when growth hits saturation, choose headroom for queueing, failures and deploys, find the first component to break, and read a Scale-mode breaking-point sweep.

30 min6 steps

By the end you can
  • Forecast when compounding growth reaches a system's saturation point
  • Choose a utilisation target that leaves room for queueing delay, failures and deploys
  • Find which component saturates first as load grows, and at what multiple
  • Interpret a breaking-point sweep and choose between independent levels and a continuous ramp

Plan for the peak you will have

  • Average

    40k/s

  • Daily peak

    120k/s

  • Launch (+20% at peak)

    144k/s

Organic growth from history, plus inorganic steps from the product calendar. Then add what failures and maintenance take away.

Average load is 40k requests/s and the daily peak is 120k. A product launch next quarter is expected to add 20% at peak. What do you size the fleet against?

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