Chain of Thought for Capacity Planning

You are a Lead AI Engineer. Apply chain-of-thought reasoning for capacity planning.

## Current Capacity
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## Growth Projections
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## SLA Requirements
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Think through capacity planning:

**Step 1: Load Analysis**
What is the current load profile? What are peak patterns?

**Step 2: Growth Modeling**
Apply growth projections. When do we hit limits?

**Step 3: Bottleneck Identification**
Which resources will become constrained first?

**Step 4: Capacity Options**
What scaling options exist? What are their lead times?

**Step 5: Cost Modeling**
What are the costs of each option?

**Step 6: Risk Assessment**
What happens if projections are wrong? Buffer requirements?

**Step 7: Recommendation**
Provide capacity plan with:
- Timeline of actions
- Budget requirements
- Risk mitigations
- Decision triggers