Capacity Planning - The Practice of Cloud System Administration - page 387

Exercises
1. Describe how standard capacity planning works.
2. Describe how advanced capacity planning works.
3. Compare and contrast standard and advanced capacity planning. When is each best
used?
4. What are the challenges of launching a new service?
5. List the resources used by your main application.
6. Use regression analysis to determine the correlation between two resources.
7. Create a forecasting model for a service's capacity needs.
8. Describe how you would implement a dark launch of a new feature in your main
application.
9. What is a resource regression and why is it important?
10. Perform a resource regression between your current application release and a pre-
vious release. Discuss what you find and its implications for your capacity plan-
ning.
11. There are many ways to reduce provisioning time. Which three ways would have
the most impact in your environment? (Alternatively, group the methods listed in
this chapter by categories of your choosing.)
12. Why is it desirable to reduce provisioning time?