From Reactive to Predictive: Capacity Planning Systems That Actually Work

Published: (January 9, 2026 at 11:24 AM EST)
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Source: DevOps.com

Source: DevOps.com

Introduction

I used to think capacity planning was about setting up CloudWatch alarms and hoping they’d fire before things broke. Spoiler: that’s not capacity planning—that’s just reactive firefighting with extra steps. Real capacity planning means knowing you’ll need more database capacity three weeks from now,…

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