Draft 1 min read Last updated on Jan 24, 2026

Draft: Load Testing Strategy and Capacity Planning

Designing load tests that inform capacity and reliability decisions.

  • Load tests must match production traffic shapes
  • Capacity planning combines metrics with projections
  • Test data and cleanup are first-class concerns
  1. Test objectives and hypotheses
  2. Traffic modeling and scenarios
  3. Infrastructure and data preparation
  4. Execution, monitoring, and bottleneck analysis
  5. Capacity estimation and headroom
  6. Reporting and remediation