Six Methods for Capacity Management in Cloud Computing
Tencent’s social network division, overseeing nearly 100,000 Linux servers that power billions of daily QQ interactions, curbs rising hardware expenses by applying six capacity‑management strategies—performance balancing, memory‑density assessment, feature‑driven scaling, virtualization‑based fragmentation reduction, bottleneck‑oriented capacity planning, and selective hardware upgrades such as larger disks or GPUs—to boost utilization and lower operational costs.
