Capacity Planning Model for a Black-Friday Traffic Surge
Overview
What this challenge is about.
Capacity Planning Model for a Black-Friday Traffic Surge. Advanced challenge in analysis. Analyzing real datasets and building models that drive decisions, e...
The Brief
What you'll do, and what you'll demonstrate.
Replace 60 percent over-provisioning with a forecast-driven capacity-planning model validated against 3 prior BFCMs, including autoscaling + pre-warm playbook.
This is not a data exercise. It is the work an analyst does when stakeholders need answers from messy data. That distinction matters to every hiring manager who has seen candidates describe statistical methods and none who have extracted insight from messy, real-world data.
When you finish, you will have something most graduates do not: a real-world deliverable, verified by Ewance, that you can show to a hiring manager and say "I did this. Here is the proof."
Earning criteria — what you'll demonstrate
- Apply seasonal forecasting (Prophet / SARIMA) to operational traffic data
- Derive per-service capacity from utilization curves and headroom policy
- Design autoscaling that respects warm-up time and scale-in safety
- Validate capacity models against prior peak events
Program Fit
Where this fits in your program.
Sharpens the same skills your degree expects you to demonstrate.
Site Reliability Engineering
Master · Cloud And Devops
Strong alignment
This challenge maps to Site Reliability Engineering at the Master level. It sharpens the same practical skills your coursework expects — but in a real industry context with actual constraints and deliverables.
Skills
Skills you'll demonstrate.
Each one shows up on your verified credential.
- Capacity Planning
Apply capacity planning to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Forecasting
Apply forecasting to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Autoscaling
Apply autoscaling to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Load Testing
Apply load testing to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Python Programming
Apply python programming to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Reliability Engineering
Apply reliability engineering to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
Careers
Career paths this challenge builds toward
Completing this challenge demonstrates skills that transfer directly to these roles: