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How to plan reserved capacity from a CSV in Python

Read a CSV of workloads with csv.DictReader and compute a mock reserved capacity plan with headroom per service.

csv capacity-planning cloud
Python
import csv
import io


def plan_reserved_capacity(workloads_csv: str) -> list[dict]:
    """Read a CSV of workloads and return a plan for reserved capacity per service."""
    reader = csv.DictReader(io.StringIO(workloads_csv))
    plan = []
    for row in reader:
        service = row["service"]
        avg_load = fl…
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Database scaling & optimization medium

How to Simulate Colocated Shard Joins in Python

Groups shards by their node and merges co-located shards into a single logical unit, checking capacity constraints.

sharding database distributed-systems
Python
import random
from collections import defaultdict


def simulate_colocated_shards_join(nodes: list[dict], shards: list[dict]) -> dict:
    """
    Simulates the join of co-located shards (on the same node) into a single
    logical shard. Returns the resulting node-to-shard mapping.

    Each node: {'id': str, 'capaci…
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