When it comes time to consider refreshing the hardware in your environment, do you want do do it quickly, or properly?<\/p>\n
Because here’s the thing: If you want to do it quickly \u2013 if you feel rushed, and want to just get it done ASAP, not seeing the point of actually doing a thorough analysis of your sizing and growth requirements, here’s what you do:<\/p>\n
Then, once you’ve got those numbers down, multiply each one by at least 4.<\/p>\n
Then, ask for twice the budget necessary to achieve those numbers \u2013 just to be on the safe side.<\/p>\n
If you think I’m joking \u2013 I’m not; I’m deadly serious. Deciding to skip an architecture phase where you actually review your needs, your growth patterns, your staffing requirements, etc., because you’re in a hurry<\/em> is a costly and damning mistake to make. So if you’re going to do it, you may as well try to make sure you can survive the budget period.<\/p>\n And if asking for that much budget scares the heck out of you \u2013 well, there is an alternative: conduct a proper system architecture phase. Sure, it may take a little longer to get things running, or cost a little more time\/money to get the plan done, but once you’ve got that done, it’ll be gold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When it comes time to consider refreshing the hardware in your environment, do you want do do it quickly, or…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,5,13],"tags":[1241,181,195,196,971],"class_list":["post-2882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-backup-theory","category-general-thoughts","tag-architecture","tag-budget","tag-capacity","tag-capacity-plan","tag-system-architecture"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t