Capacity planning.
also: headroom · capacity headroomMeasuring current limits, forecasting demand and adding capacity ahead of it, keeping headroom: the spare share of maximum capacity.
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- Headroom = (max capacity − current usage) ÷ max capacity: 3,000 QPS max at 2,000 QPS = 33%.
- Find limits with load tests; find the bottleneck before it finds you.
- Forecast growth and plan lead time: hardware, quotas and migrations take weeks.
- Keep critical resources below 70-80% utilisation; latency explodes near 100%.