Capacity Planning and Web 2.0 Hope For the Best, Prepare For the Worst
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Rob Hailstone - Published 18/02/2008
Capacity planning has always been a bit hit and miss. There are plenty of useful modelling tools and techniques that do a good job of determining the physical capacity required for a particular workload, but in the end they are all dependent on an estimation of the volume of transactions that are going to hit the system. Sometimes this can be predicted quite accurately (such as the number of car tax renewals on a daily basis, or the number of purchase requests in a manufacturing environment). However,
