Capacity Planning and Estimation | System Design for Beginners

How many servers do I need? How much storage do I need?
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In this video we’ll talk about capacity estimation. We’ll cover Traffic, storage, bandwidth and memory. We’ll also see how to estimate the number of servers a service needs and how to estimate common sizes for text and media (images & videos)
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[@winterfoxx6363]

Your videos are the best. I was terrified for my SD interview. Now I have a shot thanks to your direction and step by step approaches. Thankyou so much

[@davidmataviejo3313]

This is by far the best video on capacity estimation in KZbin and I have watched them all

[@ckshenoy]

Hands down the best capacity estimation I ever saw, thanks a lottt. I wish we had more of system design video but I guess ur busy, that's fine🙃

[@akashagarwal6390]

best one so far on this topic

[@hqdevelopers3697]

I have watched the entire system design playlist. I must say the value you are bringing is by summarising things which are normally hard to understand with simple example. Keep up the good work!

[@vidzpk5144]

This is probably the most complete and concise video on back of the envelope calculations on the internet right now, most videos either go too in detail into estimations which is not realistic in a 45 min - 1 hour interview or have no specific structure/depth.

[@AkhilKumar-bi6fr]

This is by far the best video i have seen for capacity estimation THIS IS GEM thank you so much

[@kirillunlimited]

Thank you! This is probably the best series of System Design tutorials that can be found on KZbin

[@iLuse87]

Just found your channel, really loving the way you're presenting the concepts. It's really helping me out and I'd love it if you'd continue the series. All the best and thank you so much for the content!

[@mmaximov]

Thank you Shiran, that is a good intro to planning and estimation!

[@mohnoor94]

I was watching this as a refresher, but amazed on how neat, simple, and useful you make it! Thanks a lot! Keep going!

[@sitronco]

that was AMAZING. Thank you si much for the details explanation of all the numbers and estimates

[@aryanmishra3776]

This is Great. I got to know their is something called System Designing. 3 hrs back, i'm headed to develop my own platform , which is supposed to deal with billions of transaction, believe me I'm in 3rd year of my college, now studying dbms, ds&algo and all those make sense ;)

[@the-tech-jerry]

Excellent video, the strategy is a testament of the prepration and hardwork you put into your interview preprations back in the past.

[@benparker8000]

I found your channel a week ago, and as a result found Guarav Sen's as well. You've helped me out massively during my SysDes interview prep so thanks! This video is another gem. I can never be bothered estimating because it feels pointless, but this has helped me simplify it down and give my estimations some structure. Thanks Shiran!

[@ShiranAfergan]

This is really great to hear! Thanks 🙏🏽 I’m so glad my videos helped :) hope you do great in your interview! 💪🏽💪🏽

[@demianmendez8078]

You're amazing I had a very short amount of time to prepare for my interview but thanks to you I feel much more confident!

[@dharavathsuresh8838]

I was wondering from where to start the system design and this video the perfect one to start. Thanks a lot.

[@sahilahuja753]

Hey, please don't stop putting more videos in this playlist. You've done a really great job so far 🎉🎉🎉🎉. Looking forward to seeing the complete playlist ❤.

[@andrewkicha1628]

Wow, the video is soaked with useful information. The importance of approximation, quick storage capacity calculations and the necessity to make assumptions are my favorite takeaways.

[@nikenuke]

Very clear and helpful! Haven't seen a better explanation, thanks!

[@conorbyrne3519]

Literally watching all these before my interview tomorrow! Thank you Shiran 🙌

[@hamzabohra3267]

Pls dont stop uploading videos because of you i have again got an interest in learning system design

[@ejbjms]

This explanation is very well done. There is no video on estimation which is simpler to understand than this one!

[@__ShafiqaIqbal__]

I loved the explanation and the amazing quality of your videos. Keep up the good work.

[@ShiranAfergan]

Thank you! ❤️

[@Noyemie26]

Thank you so much for this video! I've been feeling quite intimidated by the estimation part of system design but the fact that you provided a clear structure to approach these is super useful and it makes so much more sense now! 🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@ShiranAfergan]

So glad to hear that! Thanks for commenting 🙂

[@SHAJUVK]

Thank you! You are amazing. Most of the video shows final value in GB,TB etc I was always confused how they derived it. Appriciate for clearing with detailed explanation. Appriciate your great effort

[@rajarsiroy9277]

Absolutely Great Explanation !!!!

[@rushabhajain3977]

Please create more videos, your teaching is so unique and great!

[@vinoths7140]

Amazing explanations, Thnak You.

[@maharshishah4840]

Excellent video!

[@protiumx]

Really great content, perfect pace for explanation and examples!

[@ShiranAfergan]

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it :)

[@king0s]

Beautiful clear additional cherry on top explanation for media. 🙏 and ❤ from Chennai 🇮🇳

[@georgelobo4048]

OMG, thank you so much for this video!!

[@huaqian3654]

This is gold! Thank you!

[@hrsight]

Great content. Thanks.

[@sudomakes]

really nice video, helps a lot

[@astHakobyan]

Fantastic videos. Please make more

[@nitigyasahu8402]

I loved it easy to understand!!!!!

[@TheWowashka]

brilliant explanation!

[@AnuragSingh7]

Thank you Shiran. Much appreciated :)

[@alexsanderhamir8445]

you're the best, great explanation

[@Mohamed-uf5jh]

Good job Miss, l found this video helpful thanks

[@MeMe-xw9lk]

thank you for your videos. waiting for the new one. Your videos became my favorite tv show, so eager to find what would happen next ;)

[@ShiranAfergan]

thanks! Really appreciate your comment! working on new episodes 😆

[@IronCook67]

Great pacing and content.

[@perumallayaswanth83]

Best video seen ever ❤

[@jamemamjame]

Super cool contents!

[@ajisegirisunday2885]

Thanks very much for this.. I really appreciate it🙏. Great content👍

[@ShiranAfergan]

Thanks 🙏🏽 😊

[@MrEG12341]

Thank you Shiran!

[@hello_world_zz]

Great content!

[@ShiranAfergan]

😊🙏🏽

[@nimishgupta749]

nicely explained

[@RM-bg5cd]

I'll give an example. Estimated capacities are very useful when choosing which type of compute solution will be needed, for example you might want to pick a storage optimized solution if dealing with high storage and I/O requirements such as the case when hosting databases. It's really good if you bring this point up as it makes the activity far from being meaningless.

[@surajray4336]

this post deserve more views

[@charleskorey6515]

This was a great video Shiran

[@ShiranAfergan]

Thanks :)

[@vijayvaswani9717]

you are the best.

[@lawlionamv832]

Shiran please don't Stop uploading 😢

[@rulesprog]

Every video of yours is awesome. That's quite disappointing that you have not so many of them and that you're not very "popular" on KZbin. U deserve much more views etc. Could you tell if it's not a secret are you a c++ backend developer? Would be shocking if you're a Frontend developer) (taking into account the questions you've been asked on the interviews) You are the senior though. Maybe full stack even or don't have to code at all just manage)

[@the_Adam_]

Great video as always! There's a question I wanted to ask about: Negotiating your software engineering offer, especially as someone fresh out of uni, could you do a video on this pls? 🙏🙏

[@alexandrudascal5585]

Great video

[@ShiranAfergan]

Thanks :)

[@annak.5799]

Really loved the video. I am curious if there is an (online) service to practice these calculations?

[@RichyMong]

Great video! Thank you really. But I'm a little confused that only DAU is used, should we use PCU for some of the estimations?

[@kieutruong406]

hello Shiran, thank you very much for your lesson. I am currently working as a Business Analyst and I work with a document that specifies Functional and Non-functional requirements, I wonder if Capacity Planning and Estimation is also a part of the Non-functional requirements? Thank you, Shiran :)

[@joshuacarpentier2393]

do you know of any tools you can use to make these calculations also if they even allow you to use these tools in a interview

[@souravbiswas556]

New videos on this playlist please 😢

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Very good! You got some big beautiful eyes! 😊🎉

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@11:01 I think its 50 read request per second

[@jimmymalark]

Why do you write reguest instead of request? 🙄

[@sahilmonisha]

Absolutely Gem