Resource Utilization / Over-Provisioning
Kind: tension
Record: tension:over-provisioning-resource-utilization
Canonical: Schema
"resource-utilization" (performance-core layer) is traded against "Over-Provisioning" (performance-core layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Over-Provisioning" and choosing an explicit operating point.
Listed in Tensions, after Bottleneck Analysis / Distributed Complexity and before Rate Limiting / User Experience.