Capacity Planning
If you like applying Capacity Planning, every challenge here gives you a chance to practice it on a real industry brief.
- DesignIntermediateNew
Migrate a 6TB Social-Commerce Database to a Sharded Topology
Using the supplied schema specification and the seven-day anonymized query-workload export, decide the correct shard key for each table and justify it from observed access patte…
- Database Sharding
- Postgresql
- Vitess
Open coursework - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Capacity Planning for a 40-Person SaaS Scale-Up
Your task is to forecast ticket volumes using historical data (provided), determine the required number of support agents, and propose a staffing plan including shift schedules …
- Capacity Planning
- Forecasting
- Workforce Management
Open coursework - DesignIntermediateNew
Build a Scalable-System-Design Spec for a Streaming-Ingest Pipeline
Receive the current architecture (Kafka 3.6, Flink 1.18, ClickHouse 24.x), 4 weeks of production metrics (per-topic throughput, partition skew, Flink operator backpressure, Clic…
- Scalable System Design
- Kafka
- Flink
Open coursework - DesignBeginnerNew
Redesign Weekly Production Scheduling for a Munich Craft Brewery
Using the historical demand dataset, the production-constraints specification, and the current-operations snapshot provided, design a single weekly production schedule for the t…
- Process Analysis
- Capacity Planning
- Scheduling
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- AnalysisIntermediateNew
Capacity Planning Model for a Black-Friday Traffic Surge
Pull 18 months of per-service request rate + utilization from Prometheus. Forecast BFCM traffic per service using a baseline + multiplicative seasonal model (Prophet or statsmod…
- Capacity Planning
- Forecasting
- Autoscaling
Site Reliability Engineering - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Tune Database Consistency for a Ride-Hailing Match Engine
Working only from the materials provided, analyse why the matching glitch appears under load and argue for a consistency policy per query class. Start from the cluster topology …
- Consistency Models
- Cassandra
- Distributed Tracing
Open coursework - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Capacity Planning for a SaaS Scale-Up's Customer Support
Your task is to forecast ticket volumes based on enterprise growth projections, analyze current support capacity and performance, and propose a staffing plan that meets SLAs. Su…
- Capacity Planning
- Queuing Theory
- Workforce Management
Open coursework - StrategyBeginnerNew
Simulation-Based Customer Success Staffing Plan for Flowly
Using the historical ticket log, the growth-scenarios brief, and the current-operations and service-level specification provided to you, build a discrete-event simulation of Flo…
- Simulation
- Capacity Planning
- Scenario Analysis
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- AnalysisIntermediateNew
Benchmark Approximate Nearest-Neighbor Indexes for a Code-Search Startup
You receive a 5 M-vector sample (768-dim, float32) and a 1,000-query labeled benchmark with ground-truth top-50 neighbors per query. Index the same sample in Chroma (HNSW), Qdra…
- Ann Indexes
- Hnsw
- Benchmarking
Vector Databases and Embeddings
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