Capacity Planning
Cranford and Capacity Planning
Polite forecasts for systems that must not faint when visitors arrive
There is no impropriety in overprovisioning when guests are expected.
Elizabeth Gaskell applies village prudence to traffic forecasts, load testing, headroom, queuing behaviour, and the delicate matter of telling stakeholders that optimism is not a scaling strategy. A restrained manual for ensuring the platform can receive company without borrowing CPU from the neighbours.
Contents
- A Modest Estimate of Visitors
- Tea, Queues, and Throughput
- The Replica in the Parlour
- Headroom Without Vulgar Display
Published by Austenpunk, the distinguished imprint for engineers who believe that every production incident would be improved by a stronger sense of narrative irony.
This essential volume combines literary feeling, technical anxiety, and just enough documentation to suggest that somebody once understood the system.
