ghaymah-exam-mohammedhamdy-sre/Q4-Scalability/calculations.md

Container Capacity Calculation

Given

• Expected Traffic = 15,000 requests/second
• One container capacity = 500 requests/second
• Required headroom = 30%

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Step 1

Number of containers without headroom

15000 / 500 = 30 Containers

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Step 2

Adding 30% reserve capacity

30 × 1.30 = 39 Containers

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Final Result

The application should run 39 containers to safely handle the expected traffic while maintaining additional capacity for sudden traffic spikes and infrastructure failures.