(Peak) Performance is overrated
Focus on reducing variance rather than increasing peaks
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Capacity planning uses p95 or p99 response time
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Servers must be underutilized to tolerate variance
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Manageability needs more attention
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Cost of extra hardware can be predicted
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Cost of downtime cannot
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Downtime comes in many forms (server down and server too busy)