{"id":1704,"date":"2008-11-28T16:43:56","date_gmt":"2008-11-28T16:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/?p=1704"},"modified":"2008-11-28T16:43:56","modified_gmt":"2008-11-28T16:43:56","slug":"is-capacity-planning-dead-or-set-for-a-revival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/is-capacity-planning-dead-or-set-for-a-revival\/","title":{"rendered":"Is capacity planning dead or set for a revival?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Capacity planning is something I broadly associate with the mainframe market. Its something data center used to do before the advent of commodity computing &#8211; when chips became cheap and storage even cheaper. Web companies are notorious for their &#8220;throw servers at the problem, don&#8217;t worry its scale out&#8221; approaches. But virtualisation, and dare I say it, the Cloud, are bringing issues of strategic infrastructure planning back to the fore. I recently recommitted to blogging, and said I would try and bring some of my twitter conversation back to my blog, making it less ephemeral and perhaps even more timeless. The most simple method I can think of is to search and paste, like so. I got some really solid responses. The cool thing is now you can go talk to these people yourself.<\/p>\n<p>@jiludvik: @monkchips Capacity planning will be less of a worry for end users and more so for cloud providers. Capacity does cost money,even at scale<\/p>\n<p>@jesserobbins: @monkchips Capacity Planning = Tactical Advantage, Strategic Ability. John Allspaw&#8217;s explains why &amp; *how* http:\/\/tr.im\/1g79<\/p>\n<p>@jevdemon: @monkchips capacity planning will be dead when people stop building and deploying systems. In other words, never.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Capacity planning is something I broadly associate with the mainframe market. Its something data center used to do before the advent of commodity computing &#8211; when chips became cheap and storage even cheaper. Web companies are notorious for their &#8220;throw servers at the problem, don&#8217;t worry its scale out&#8221; approaches. But virtualisation, and dare I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wfjh-ru","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}