Machine LineLesson
Server capacity & scaling up
Why latency stays flat and then shoots up as a server fills, how to find the resource that is really full, and when a bigger machine is the fix.
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- Queueing & Little's law
- Connection pools
- Server capacity & scaling up
- Capacity math
- Find the bottleneck
What you'll be able to do
- 1Predict how latency changes as utilization rises from 50% to above 90%.
- 2Find which resource — CPU, memory or connections — limits a server under load.
- 3Decide when a bigger machine is the right fix and when it hits its ceiling.
Inside the lesson
- steps
- 7
- questions
- 7
- simulations
- 2
You guess first, then run the system and see if you were right.