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Evaluating requirements
It is generally a good idea to examine what kind of load Cassandra is going to face when
deployed on a production server. It does not have to be accurate, but some sense of traffic
can give a little more clarity to what you expect from Cassandra (criteria for load tests),
whether you really need Cassandra (the halo effect), or whether you can bear all the ex-
penses that a running Cassandra cluster can incur on a daily basis (the value proposition).
Let's see how to choose various hardware specifications for a specific need.
