Lexicon

Over-Provisioning

Kind: quality-attribute

Layer: Performance Core

Record: lexicon:over-provisioning

Canonical: Lexicon

The degree to which allocated capacity exceeds demand, trading waste for safety margin.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Model Assumptions and before Read-Your-Writes Consistency.

Category

  • Scalability / Performance / Optimization

In tension with

  • Resource Utilization
  • Resource Utilization / Over-Provisioning

Linked from

  • Scalability / Performance / Optimization
  • The resolutions