Learn the collocations for sizing infrastructure, planning capacity, forecasting demand, and scaling proactively.
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Before the Black Friday sale, the SRE team was asked to ___ infrastructure to handle five times normal traffic.
Size infrastructure is the standard capacity planning collocation for determining the correct amount of compute, memory, and storage required for an anticipated workload. 'Plan along' and 'build around' are informal. 'Provision out' is not a standard phrase.
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The operations team met quarterly to ___ capacity and ensure resources could support the next six months of growth.
Plan capacity is the standard infrastructure and operations collocation for anticipating future resource needs and ensuring availability. 'Forecast along' and 'review around' are informal. 'Estimate out' is too generic.
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The data team used historical usage curves to ___ demand and justify the next hardware purchase.
Forecast demand is the standard capacity planning collocation for projecting future resource requirements based on historical data and growth trends. 'Predict along' and 'estimate around' are informal. 'Project out' does not carry the analytical rigour implied by demand forecasting.
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With auto-scaling policies in place, the platform could ___ proactively before traffic spikes reached critical thresholds.
Scale proactively is the standard cloud operations collocation for adding capacity in anticipation of demand rather than in reaction to it. 'Grow along' and 'expand around' are informal. 'Add out' is not a standard phrase.
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The SRE team used load testing reports to ___ headroom and determine how much spare capacity existed before saturation.
Measure headroom is the standard SRE and capacity planning collocation for quantifying the available spare capacity before a system reaches its limits. 'Calculate along' and 'check around' are informal. 'Assess out' is redundant.