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)

Systems Design Interview Prep Guide -

High Availability | Eliminate Single Points of Failure -

Data Consistency | Strong Consistency vs. Eventual Consistency -

The CAP Theorem

[davidmataviejo]

This is by far the best video on capacity estimation in YouTube and I have watched them all

[AkhilKumar-bifr]

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

[vidzpk]

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.

[Noyemie]

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! 🙏🏻🙏🏻

[benparker]

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!

[hqdevelopers]

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!

[kirillunlimited]

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

[ejbjms]

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

[winterfoxx]

Your videos are the best. I was terrified for my SD interview. Now I have a shot thanks to your direction and step by step approaches. Thankyou so much

[andrewkicha]

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.

[__ShafiqaIqbal__]

I loved the explanation and the amazing quality of your videos. Keep up the good work.

[hamzabohra]

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

[conorbyrne]

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

[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.

[sahilahuja]

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 ❤.

[mohnoor]

I was watching this as a refresher, but amazed on how neat, simple, and useful you make it! Thanks a lot! Keep going!

[bhalaji-yt-profile]

This video is Gem, keep posting more videos on 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

[dharavathsuresh]

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

[aryanmishra]

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 ;)