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Estimation

Module 3 of the System Design Masterclass. Every lesson here is free to read, with no account.

  • 3 lessons
  • 1 h 10 min of reading
  1. 14From users to requests per secondHow to turn daily users into requests per second, with a busiest-time factor and a read to write split, plus the sizes, times and powers of two worth knowing.24 minCore Fast track
  2. 15Storage, bandwidth and how many serversHow to work out how much data you store, how much data moves each second, how many servers and how much memory you need, and what it costs each month.24 minCore Fast track
  3. 16Estimation drills at Indian scaleThree timed drills on Indian events, UPI payments on the 1st, a live cricket final and a train booking window at 10 am, using one routine for requests, data, writes and servers.22 minCore

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