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Scenario

Why infrastructure automation assumptions mismatch application behavior

I set up autoscaling based on CPU usage but our app is memory-bound so the servers run out of RAM while CPU stays low and autoscaling never triggers and users get errors.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Automated systems built on generic metrics can systematically misunderstand the specific characteristics of the workloads they manage.

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