Monday, 24 November 2014
Autoscaling, welcome to Google Compute Engine
Autoscaling allows customers to build more cost effective and resilient applications. Using Compute Engine Autoscaling, you can ensure that exactly the right number of Compute Engine instances are available at any given time to handle your application’s workload. This saves you money when your application’s usage is low, and ensures your application is responsive when utilization is high.
Autoscaling is the the Holy grail of a distributed system. The promise is that the system is be able to adapt—both up and down—to the needs/requirements/SLAs. Basically, the system will be able to get the performance it is demanded to provide, maximum availability, and these with optimal costs.
The first step in finding this Holy grail is to be able to describe the needs and requirements and SLAs of the system.
Original title and link: Autoscaling, welcome to Google Compute Engine (©myNoSQL)
via: http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2014/11/autoscaling-welcome-to-google-compute.html