Capacity Planning is a pretty difficult topic to wrap your head around and can seem almost impossible to start with. In this talk, I present the four basic steps to go from monitoring what you have to planning for the future. If you've found yourself woken up at 4 AM to expand nodes to meet demand, it's time to pull away from reactive actions and start proactive capacity planning.
The goal of the session is to:
- Provide an approachable method for capacity planning right now.
- Highlight concerns and considerations before starting your plan.
- Explain how to enforce your plan after you've made it.
- Explain when to re-evaluate your plans and reduce toil.
- Recommend some methods for avoiding common pitfalls engineers/business folk fall into.
