Capacity Planning and Estimation | System Design for Beginners

How many servers do I need? How much storage do I need?
This playlist should help you prepare for your system design interviews.
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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[@davidmataviejo3313]

This is by far the best video on capacity estimation in RUclips 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!

[@AkhilKumar-bi6fr]

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

[@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! 💪🏽💪🏽

[@kirillunlimited]

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

[@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.

[@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 ;)

[@ejbjms]

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

[@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!

[@__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 🙂

[@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

[@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!

[@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.

[@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.

[@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 ❤.

[@conorbyrne3519]

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

[@dharavathsuresh8838]

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

[@mmaximov]

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

[@hamzabohra3267]

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

[@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

[@vinoths7140]

Amazing explanations, Thnak You.

[@rushabhajain3977]

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

[@nikenuke]

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

[@king0s]

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

[@rajarsiroy9277]

Absolutely Great Explanation !!!!

[@maharshishah4840]

Excellent video!

[@protiumdev]

Really great content, perfect pace for explanation and examples!

[@ShiranAfergan]

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it :)

[@hrsight]

Great content. Thanks.

[@georgelobo4048]

OMG, thank you so much for this video!!

[@huaqian3654]

This is gold! Thank you!

[@astHakobyan]

Fantastic videos. Please make more

[@alexsanderhamir8445]

you're the best, great explanation

[@AnuragSingh7]

Thank you Shiran. Much appreciated :)

[@TheWowashka]

brilliant explanation!

[@Mohamed-uf5jh]

Good job Miss,
l found this video helpful thanks

[@nitigyasahu8402]

I loved it easy to understand!!!!!

[@MrEG12341]

Thank you Shiran!

[@IronCook67]

Great pacing and content.

[@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 😆

[@nimishgupta749]

nicely explained

[@perumallayaswanth83]

Best video seen ever ❤

[@ajisegirisunday2885]

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

[@ShiranAfergan]

Thanks 🙏🏽 😊

[@jamemamjame]

Super cool contents!

[@lawlionamv832]

Shiran please don't Stop uploading 😢

[@hello_world_zz]

Great content!

[@ShiranAfergan]

😊🙏🏽

[@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.

[@charleskorey6515]

This was a great video Shiran

[@ShiranAfergan]

Thanks :)

[@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? 🙏🙏

[@surajray4336]

this post deserve more views

[@vijayvaswani9717]

you are the best.

[@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 RUclips. 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)

[@alexandrudascal5585]

Great video

[@ShiranAfergan]

Thanks :)

[@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?

[@annak.5799]

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

[@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 :)

[@souravbiswas556]

New videos on this playlist please 😢

[@sonnydemichele4903]

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

[@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

[@shivanichauhan2329]

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

[@jimmymalark]

Why do you write reguest instead of request? 🙄

[@sahilmonisha]

Absolutely Gem