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capacity planning

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Two services with identical dashboards and twenty-fold different cost per request, beside on-demand, reserved and spot capacity matched to steady, bursty and interruptible workloads

Cloud & CostDay 70Oct 11, 2026

The Metric Nobody Puts On The Dashboard

system-design cloud-and-cost finops

A traffic graph where load doubles at 9:00, the autoscaler notices at 9:02 and new instances serve at 9:06, with the request queue timing out in the six-minute gap

Cloud & CostDay 67Oct 8, 2026

Capacity That Arrives After The Rush

system-design cloud-and-cost autoscaling