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What is the purpose of a "rate of growth" estimation (capacity planning) in system design interviews?
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The correct answer is A) To estimate future traffic, storage, and resource needs so the system can be designed to handle expected scale
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Correct Answer
To estimate future traffic, storage, and resource needs so the system can be designed to handle expected scale
Explanation
Capacity estimation (users, requests/sec, storage growth) helps justify design decisions like the need for caching, sharding, or specific database choices.
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