Capacity Planning with the Universal Scalability Law

How can you project how many servers you need to serve your users a year from now? How can you debunk vendor claims of linear scalability? In this talk we introduce the Universal Scalability Law as an approach to model software scalability and show you how you can apply it to your applications based on monitoring data.

Speaker

  • Daniel Mitterdorfer
    Daniel Mitterdorfer
    Elastic

    Daniel Mitterdorfer is tech lead of Elastic’s performance engineering team. Prior to that he spearheaded benchmark methodology and tooling for Elasticsearch and worked on the backend of an always-on, fleet-wide profiler. He is interested in all aspects around systems performance.

Date

Nov 19 2025
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Time

10:30 - 11:00

Location

Jacobi