📊 Real-world Capacity Planning
Learn from actual capacity planning examples at scale. Study how major tech companies calculate storage, bandwidth, and compute requirements for their systems.
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Real Examples
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Industries
Billions
Users Covered
Production
Scale Data
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Global Video Streaming Platform
Media & EntertainmentNetflix-scale • 230M+ users, 1B+ hours/month
Capacity planning for a global video streaming service serving 230M+ subscribers with 15,000+ titles
USERS
230M subscribers globally
TRAFFIC
1B+ viewing hours/month
STORAGE
100+ PB of content
BANDWIDTH
15% of global internet traffic
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Social Media & Photo Sharing
Social MediaInstagram-scale • 2B+ users, 500M+ photos/day
Capacity planning for a social media platform with 2B+ users sharing 500M+ photos daily
USERS
2B monthly active users
TRAFFIC
500M photos uploaded daily
STORAGE
50+ PB photo storage
BANDWIDTH
100+ Gbps peak
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E-commerce Marketplace
E-commerceAmazon-scale • 300M+ customers, 12M+ products
Capacity planning for a global e-commerce platform handling millions of products and transactions
USERS
300M+ active customers
TRAFFIC
50K orders/minute peak
STORAGE
10+ PB product data
BANDWIDTH
200+ Gbps during sales
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Instant Messaging Service
CommunicationWhatsApp-scale • 2B+ users, 100B+ messages/day
Capacity planning for a messaging platform handling 100B+ messages daily with 2B+ users
USERS
2B+ monthly users
TRAFFIC
100B+ messages/day
STORAGE
1B+ images/day
BANDWIDTH
50+ Gbps sustained
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Web Search Engine
Search & DiscoveryGoogle-scale • 8.5B+ searches/day, 130T+ pages indexed
Capacity planning for a web search engine indexing billions of pages with millisecond response times
USERS
4B+ users globally
TRAFFIC
8.5B+ searches/day
STORAGE
100+ PB index data
BANDWIDTH
1+ Tbps query processing
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AI Model Serving Platform
AI/MLOpenAI-scale • 100M+ users, 10B+ tokens/day
Capacity planning for serving large language models to millions of users with real-time inference
USERS
100M+ monthly users
TRAFFIC
10B+ tokens processed/day
STORAGE
1TB+ model weights
BANDWIDTH
100+ Gbps inference traffic