# Capacity Planning at Scale

DevFeed: [Capacity Planning at Scale](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/capacity-planning-at-scale-1339.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://shopify.engineering/capacity-planning-shopify>)

Author: Kathryn Tang

Published: 2020-12-03T18:00:01Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Shopify Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/shopify-engineering.md>), [Shopify Engineering - Shopify Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/shopify-engineering-shopify-engineering.md>)

Topics: [Shopify](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/shopify.md>), [Scalability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/scalability.md>), [cloud-infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud-infrastructure.md>), [Google](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/google.md>), [log management](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/log-management.md>)

Tags: [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [cloud-platform](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud-platform.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [resources](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/resources.md>), [safety](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/safety.md>), [scalability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scalability.md>), [shopify](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/shopify.md>), [storage](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/storage.md>)

## AI overview

Shopify describes its capacity-planning process for the Black Friday-Cyber Monday period. The approach forecasts traffic, estimates Google Cloud resource requirements such as CPUs and storage, adds safety buffers, coordinates planning across teams, and validates the plans with scalability tests.

## Source excerpt

We cover our approaches to capacity planning, and how we rolled it out across the org and to dozens of teams. We'll also share how we validated our capacity plans with scalability tests to make sure they work.