Capacity Planning

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Plan infrastructure capacity for expected load. Use when sizing systems, planning for growth, or analyzing resource requirements. Covers load estimation and resource sizing.

Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.

Connect ahel once, and every AI you use reads what you have installed.

Then ask your AI: use the Capacity Planning skill

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by nguyenhuuca/assessment in .claude/skills/architecture/capacity-planning/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

Workflows

  • Baseline: Measure current resource usage
  • Forecast: Project future growth
  • Size: Calculate required resources
  • Buffer: Add headroom for spikes
  • Monitor: Track actual vs. predicted

Key Metrics

Compute

  • CPU utilization (target: 60-70%)
  • Memory usage
  • Request latency (P50, P95, P99)

Storage

  • Disk IOPS
  • Throughput (MB/s)
  • Capacity growth rate

Network

  • Bandwidth utilization
  • Connection counts
  • Packet loss

Estimation Framework

Little's Law

L = λ × W

L = Average number of items in system
λ = Average arrival rate
W = Average time in system

Example Calculation

Given:
- 1000 requests/second
- 100ms average response time

Required concurrent connections:
L = 1000 × 0.1 = 100 concurrent connections

Resource Sizing

Database Connections

connections = (requests_per_second × avg_query_time) × 1.5

Memory

memory = (concurrent_users × memory_per_user) + base_overhead

CPU Cores

cores = (peak_rps × cpu_time_per_request) / target_utilization

Growth Planning

Traffic Growth

  • Historical growth rate
  • Planned marketing/launches
  • Seasonal patterns

Data Growth

  • Records per day
  • Record size
  • Retention policy

Capacity Planning Document

  1. Current state metrics
  2. Growth assumptions
  3. Resource projections (3, 6, 12 months)
  4. Cost estimates
  5. Scaling triggers and thresholds

Signals

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Last commit
Sep 2026
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Source
github.com/nguyenhuuca/assessment