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Sep 4, 2026 · Operations

Capacity Prediction at 10M QPS: From Gut Feel to Data-Driven Decisions

This article explains why experience-based capacity planning fails at 10M QPS scale and presents a data-driven framework separating business demand, system load, and resource capacity, using prediction intervals, error feedback loops, and incremental model building to turn vague traffic estimates into verifiable resource decisions.