Lesson 4.3
Capacity estimation
Rough arithmetic on requests, payload sizes, and growth turns opinions into a design you can defend in a review.
Taught byTomas BergPython · pandas · System design · Distributed systems
Overview
Rough arithmetic on requests, payload sizes, and growth turns opinions into a design you can defend in a review.
What this lesson covers
- Estimate throughput, storage, and bandwidth
- Size for peak, not for average
- Sanity check a design against the numbers
This lesson sits in Reliability and Operations, part of System Design Foundations. It assumes what came before it and leads directly into the next lesson in the module.
In this lesson you will:
- Estimate throughput, storage, and bandwidth
- Size for peak, not for average
- Sanity check a design against the numbers