#Capacity Planning

Writing, research, projects, and photos around “Capacity Planning”.

Published September 3, 2026

AI Gateway: From Backend Scheduling to Cost Governance

Using multi-backend model access as the setting, this article explains how an AI Gateway handles resource scheduling, capacity control, failure switching, distributed state, usage accounting, and enterprise cost governance.

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16 min read

Part of the column “Technical Systems” · Chapter 9

Published August 28, 2026

From One Request to a Multi-Node Execution System: How the Architecture Evolves

Starting from the fault structure of a multi-node execution system, this article reviews how requests, state, storage, performance, and failures gradually cross boundaries, and discusses how the next architecture should be reorganized.

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19 min read

Part of the column “Technical Systems” · Chapter 6

Published April 2, 2023

Headcount Planning Is Not a Ratio Game: Align When Resources Appear

Headcount ratios are only a dynamic concept. What matters more is aligning goals, markets, and resource constraints in time when expanding, contracting, or changing plans.

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3 min read

Part of the column “Engineering Collaboration” · Chapter 4

Published March 23, 2023

When Resources Are Tight, How to Keep the Team From Running on Burnout

Resource pressure is not something a call to "try harder" can fix. The team needs to reduce commitments, risks, and complaints back to facts, and make trade-offs openly.

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3 min read

Part of the column “Engineering Collaboration” · Chapter 3