Vocabulary · Volume 1 and Volume 2
Request
A statement of what someone wants, which begins investigation or negotiation. Submitting it does not establish that the resources exist, that funding is approved, or that another customer will give up an allocation.
Discussed in the book
Chapters where “Request” is discussed at length, ranked by how directly each section treats it.
- Volume I, Chapter 1: What Computing Costs
Sections: Several dimensions of the same dollar · A bill we can follow
- Volume I, Chapter 2: Capacity Is a Decision
Sections: Specify the work before naming the size · Requirements can change faster than supply · How to read this chapter · Make the promise understandable
- Volume I, Chapter 3: The Players and the Vocabulary
Sections: The nouns that change a meeting · Who can change the promise? · When you are the one escalated on
- Volume I, Chapter 4: The Simplest Practice
Sections: A portfolio small enough to follow · What the measurements let us say · Find a choice that can be ready · Come back after the launch · Make the decision legible
- Volume I, Chapter 5: Knowing Your Workloads
Sections: Begin with the work, not the machine · A record someone can challenge · Test the arrivals you expect to receive · Use simple arithmetic where it is useful
- Volume I, Chapter 7: AI Services and Token Capacity
Sections: Sizing supply for the busy interval · Token capacity is a different kind of capacity · Aggregation: making a multi-model fleet governable · Budgets and allowances
- Volume I, Chapter 10: Specialized Hardware
Sections: The arithmetic a planner owns · What must be measured · How to read this chapter · Acquiring it · An experiment on shared hardware, before the fleet · The sizing process
- Volume I, Chapter 12: Databases and Data-Bound Technologies
Sections: Kafka: retention is a promise to a future reader · · Cassandra: the data model is part of the capacity plan
- Volume II, Chapter 14: Seasonal Variation
Sections: First decide what you are forecasting · Read errors in the unit of the decision · What the uncertainty changes · Put the conversation next to the model
- Volume II, Chapter 16: A Portfolio of Customers
Sections: A process for the largest consumers and the long tail · When the plans do not agree
- Volume II, Chapter 17: The Relationship Discipline
Sections: Tags, borrowed projects, and reasons to participate · Make early information worth sharing · Special projects are part of the job
- Volume II, Chapter 18: Reserve Capacity
Sections: Borrowed capacity changes the failure calculation · Available for what?
- Volume II, Chapter 20: Commitments Between Organizations
Sections: Decide what changes when demand changes · A discount and a resource are different things
- Volume II, Chapter 22: The Monthly Capacity Review
Sections: A record for this month's choice · · Prepare the decision before preparing the slides
- Volume II, Chapter 24: Markets for Compute
Sections: The question the curve answers
Related posts
Blog posts that discuss “Request”.
- The Best Model Is a Portfolio2026-11-07
- Ask again, do you really need to buy a GPU?2026-10-14
- Spot Instances Were a Lie2026-10-18
- Cloud Cost and Capacity Should Not Be Your First Job2026-10-06
- The Price List Is Not the Kitchen2026-10-08