opsschool-curriculum/capacity_planning.rst
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Capacity Planning
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(Seems reasonable to have the Statistics for Engineers course be a pre-req for
this course)
Fundamentals of capacity planning
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Resource usage investigation and exploration
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* Examples: CPU:req/sec ratio, memory footprint:req/sec ratio, disk consumption
per user/per sale/per widget, etc.
* Application:Infrastructure metric relationships
* 2nd order capacity (logging,
metrics+monitoring systems, ancillary systems)
Finding ceilings
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* Discovering resource limits
* Comparing different hardware/instance profiles - production load versus
synthetic
* Benchmarking: pitfalls, limitations, pros/cons
* http://www.contextneeded.com/system-benchmarks
* Multivariate infra limits (multiple resource peak-driven usage) Ex: web+image
uploads, caching storage+processing, etc.
* Architecture analysis (anticipating the next bottleneck)
Forecasting
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Linear and nonlinear trending and forecasting ("steering by your wake")
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Details of automatic forecasting and scaling
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Seasonality and future events
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* Organic growth approaches (bottom-up infra driven, top-down app driven)
* inorganic growth events (new feature launch, holiday effects, "going viral",
major public announcement)
* Provisioning effects on timelines, financial tradeoffs
Diagonal scaling
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(vertically scaling your already horizontal architecture)
Reprovisioning and legacy system usage tradeoffs
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