[skinp]

Interesting. It might be a by-product of having worked in larger companies, but my experience has pretty much always been: Product manager > "We need this to work for 10k r/s at launch". Actual launch throughput (and all time peak): 100 r/s

Now I always mostly just assume (capacity asked / 10) is more than enough!

[Nican]

As an employee of a large company, I can relate to this experience. The manager has grandiose views about the product, but has no data to back his claims.