Discuss growth rates, retention policies, and capacity forecasts naturally in English.
Capacity planning phrases
"At current growth rates, we'll hit capacity in X months."
"We retain X days of logs / purge data older than N days."
"We need a 20% safety buffer above peak."
"The data is growing at X% month-over-month."
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A storage engineer says: "At current growth rates, we'll _____ capacity in about 6 months." What verb fills the blank?
"Hit capacity" is the most idiomatic phrase in capacity planning. "Reach" is also natural. "Exceed" implies going over, which could work but is slightly less conversational here. "Exhaust" is more common for error budgets and retry limits.
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A data engineer says: "We _____ data older than 90 days to keep storage costs manageable." What verb fits?
"Purge" is the standard data engineering term for scheduled, policy-driven deletion of old data. "Delete" is correct but generic. "Remove" and "clean" are less precise. "Purge old data" / "purge data older than N days" is the conventional phrasing.
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A capacity plan reads: "Storage is growing at 15% _____ — we should review provisioning every quarter." What phrase fills the blank?
"Month-over-month" (MoM) is the standard compound adjective for periodic growth rates in business and engineering reporting. It specifically describes growth measured by comparing one month to the previous one. "Per month" is clear but less conventional for growth rate description.
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A storage architect says: "We're _____ additional capacity before the Q4 traffic spike." What verb fits best?
"Provisioning" is the standard infrastructure verb for allocating or setting up resources — storage, compute, or network. "Adding" and "buying" are informal. "Scaling" usually implies autoscaling or architectural scaling, not proactive manual provisioning.
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A platform engineer says: "We need a _____ buffer above projected peak — 20% is our standard." What word fills the blank?
"Safety buffer" is the idiomatic phrase for planned excess capacity. "Headroom" is also widely used: "we need 20% headroom above peak." "Overhead" usually describes fixed resource costs, not planned spare capacity. "Capacity buffer" is less common than the other two.