Applications may face the dreaded unplanned increase of requests. Even knowing when such an event might occur, it is very difficult to estimate how far to scale without under- or over-committing resources. The auto-scaling service adjusts the number of application instances based on need. Come learn about what the auto-scaling service can do for you. Lets discuss what additional capabilities (application metrics, time-based, external events, etc) you need to scale up or down your application properly.
Michael Fraenkel is a Distinguished Engineer at IBM. He is the Product Manager for the Runtime OG team responsible for the DEA and HM9000, the Workload Isolation team, and the Application Autoscaler team.
Bo Yang is a senior technical staff member of IBM Watson and Cloud . He is currently working on the development of application platform and tools for IBM Cloud. Previously he was a senior research scientist in IBM research in the areas of distributed system and big data. Bo has published... Read More →