Capacity planning
Capacity planning is the process of determining the infrastructure resources required by your application to meet future workload demands for your app. This process ensures that you have adequate resources available only when they are needed, reducing costs to the minimum. If you know how your application is used and the limits of your current resources, you can extrapolate the data and know, more or less, the future requirements. Creating a capacity plan for your application has some benefits, among which we can highlight the following ones:
- Minimize costs and avoid waste from over-provisioning: Your application will use only the required resources, so it makes no sense, for example, to have a 64 GB RAM server for your database when you are only using 8 GB.
- Prevent bottlenecks and save time: Your capacity plan highlights when each element of your infrastructure reaches its peak, giving you a hint about where the bottleneck can be.
- Increase business productivity...
