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Capacity Planning
Part of the DevOps Roadmap
In short
Forecasting future resource needs based on growth trends, so infrastructure scales ahead of demand rather than reactively during a crisis — combines monitoring data with basic forecasting.
How to learn this
- 1Sketch a simple capacity forecast: current usage trend projected 3-6 months forward.
- 2Learn to build in buffer capacity for unexpected spikes, not just the forecasted trend line.
- 3Understand why capacity planning matters even more for systems that can't auto-scale easily.
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