Capacity Glossary
Browse 5 capacity terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.
5 Capacity Terms
- Bandwidth (slang)
- A metaphorical way of describing a person's available time, attention, energy, or cognitive capacity to take on more work. In workplace culture it is widely...
- Compute Resource
- Any measurable computational capacity such as CPU cores, memory, GPU time, or allocated execution slots used to run software. Compute resources are often...
- Running Hot
- Operating close to system, workload, or human limits, often with little spare capacity left. It can describe servers near resource saturation or teams under...
- Running Lean
- Operating with limited headcount, margin, or resource buffer. In engineering slang, running lean can sound efficient until incidents reveal how little slack...
- Throughput
- The amount of work a system can handle per unit of time — requests per second, transactions per minute, data processed per hour. Not the same as latency: you...
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