Autoscaling is the ability of your application to automatically adjust its resources in response to a higher or lower demand or request volume. For example, an e-commerce website may experience a surge in traffic during a flash sale, requiring additional server capacity to handle the increased load. With autoscaling, the application can automatically provision more virtual machines or containers to accommodate the spike in traffic, and then scale back down once the demand decreases.
By leveraging autoscaling, you can ensure that your application remains responsive and cost-effective, even under fluctuating workloads.
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Monitoring
Monitoring is the act of tracking the performance and behavior of a system, application, or service in real-time, allowing for the detection of issues, anomalies, and performance bottlenecks. It involves collecting and analyzing metrics to ensure that everything is running smoothly and to identify potential areas for improvement.
Scalability
Scalability is the ability of an application to handle an increasing load, such as a growin number of users or requests witout experiencing downtime or performance degradation.
Observability
Observability is the ability to understand how your application is working and behaving in production through telemetry data (logs, metrics, traces, wide events, etc.). It enables you detect, diagnose and resolve issues in your app before they impact your users and become problems.