Vocabulary · Volume 1 and Volume 2
Reserve
Capacity held for an identified purpose, with stated readiness, authority to use or release it, and review conditions. Shared reserve needs explicit assumptions about simultaneous calls on it.
Discussed in the book
Chapters where “Reserve” is discussed at length, ranked by how directly each section treats it.
- Volume I, Chapter 1: What Computing Costs
- Volume I, Chapter 2: Capacity Is a Decision
Sections: Elasticity: what it promises and what it costs · Make the promise understandable
- Volume I, Chapter 7: AI Services and Token Capacity
Sections: Summary of the chapter · Before any theory: the four ways to buy tokens · Sizing supply for the busy interval
- Volume I, Chapter 10: Specialized Hardware
Sections: Installed, schedulable, usable · The arithmetic a planner owns · The sizing process
- Volume I, Chapter 13: Measuring Value
Sections: A number worth carrying forward
- Volume II, Chapter 14: Seasonal Variation
Sections: What the uncertainty changes
- Volume II, Chapter 18: Reserve Capacity
Sections: · Reserve has several owners · How to read this chapter · Decide what would permit release
- Volume II, Chapter 20: Commitments Between Organizations
Sections: Carry the conditions into the review · A discount and a resource are different things
- Volume II, Chapter 21: Multiple Markets
Sections: One register, not a private law firm
- Volume II, Chapter 24: Markets for Compute
Sections: What is available and what is announced · The question the curve answers
Related posts
Blog posts that discuss “Reserve”.
- Three Strikes on Racks of GPUs2026-10-10
- The Price List Is Not the Kitchen2026-10-08
- The biggest changes to cloud capacity in the last decade2026-10-15
- Spot Instances Were a Lie2026-10-18