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CAPACITY-MANAGEMENT-IT5 MIN READ

Commit To A Rightsizing Experiment

Commit to a reversible rightsizing or scheduling experiment with SLO guardrails.

Run a reversible capacity optimization experiment. Use this for an oversized API pool, idle dev environment, scheduled worker fleet, data warehouse cluster, or batch job that can be changed behind a guardrail. Workload: [name] Suspected waste: [idle hours, oversized instance, low queue pressure, over-reserved baseline] Experiment: [smaller size, schedule down, lower min replicas, move batch window] SLO guardrail: [latency, queue age, error rate, completion time] Rollback rule: [metric and duration] Review: [date, owner, savings and performance result] In 3 days, check whether the experiment ran or was deliberately rejected with a documented risk reason. For an API pool with low…

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