Perfecting Autoscaling & Sizing : Part 2

Submitted by jacob on Thu, 01/11/2018 - 21:22

 

b"h

 

Goal: 100% 200 OK

 

howto scope...

Load Balancing Density

* What is it? spreading out the requests to the application horizontally on many micro instances vs lesser on larger instances...

* Why is it useful? it is more cost effective to run the calculation on many horizontally scaled micro instances, then to run on lesser, vertically scaled, larger instances, so always aim for horizontal.

hence, segway into...

Perfecting Autoscaling & Sizing

Submitted by jacob on Thu, 10/26/2017 - 18:27

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Autoscaling

 

Don't be afraid to scale.

 

...so this past year alone, i have spent about ~$30K of my own capital testing / learning/ perfecting virtual hardware scaling & sizing in the cloud...

essentially running load tests multiple times a day for over a year, and counting...

...running the buzzwords.news big data analysis...that produces the results displayed on this site daily...