LESSON 4.3
Capacity estimation
Learn key techniques and workflows in System Design Foundations.
8m
intermediate
6,371 students
Overview
Rough arithmetic on requests, payload sizes, and growth turns opinions into a design you can defend in a review.
In this lesson you will:
- Estimate throughput, storage, and bandwidth
- Size for peak, not for average
- Sanity check a design against the numbers
Pro Tip
Use caching and revalidation wisely to ensure your app stays fast and data remains fresh without unnecessary requests.