# Capacity Canvas

Canonical page: https://apiopscycles.com/resources/capacity-canvas

Language: en

Entity ID: capacityCanvas

Quantify demand, load, timing, availability, and scaling needs for capabilities, automations, integrations, or services.

Category: canvas

## Outcomes

- Capacity requirements aligned with expected business demand
- Peak-load, availability, and growth assumptions documented
- Scaling, caching, and rate-limiting decisions defined

## How to use

1. Current Business Volumes: Quantify current business volumes and transaction rates.
2. Future Consumption Trends: Estimate future demand and growth assumptions.
3. Peak Load and Availability Requirements: Quantify peak load and availability needs.
4. Caching, rate limiting, and scaling approaches: Record architecture follow-up options where capacity requires them.
5. Propose scaling strategies

## Canvas guidance

How much demand, load, timing, and scaling capacity must be understood for the capability, automation, integration, or service?

Quantify current and expected demand, peak load, and availability needs. Record caching, rate limiting, and scaling approaches as architecture follow-up decisions rather than user requirements.

License: CC-BY-SA 4.0

Authors: Osaango Ltd

### Current Business Volumes

What are the current business volumes and transaction rates?

### Future Consumption Trends

What are the anticipated future consumption trends?

### Peak Load and Availability Requirements

What are the peak load and availability requirements?

### Caching Strategies

What caching strategies can be used to optimize performance?

### Rate Limiting Strategies

What rate limiting strategies can be used to manage consumption?

### Scaling Strategies

What scaling strategies can be used to accommodate growth?

## Related stations

- [Scalable Infrastructure - Build APIs on a Solid Foundation](https://apiopscycles.com/stations/scalable-infrastructure.md)