From the course: DevOps Foundations: Site Reliability Engineering

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Capacity and scalability

Capacity and scalability

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Capacity and scalability

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- There comes a time when you need to serve more users, more hits and more data, and you can't just make due with less. - You know as Notorious B.I.G said, "Mo money, mo problems." - And nowhere is that more true than in systems engineering - As you grow, you're faced with a challenge of scaling your systems to keep up. - And that's a more multidimensional problem. - First, if you aren't deploying all your infrastructure via automation, you should start. - James and I have another course here in the library. DevOps Fundamentals, Infrastructure Automation. That covers how to deploy, and configure your infrastructure from code instead of by hand - Either speed or reliability you get from infrastructure automation, it's a must for modern architectures. - You're going to face a lot of complex scaling problems in your jobs as an SRE. Boxes running out of CPU memory or other resources is actually the least of it.…

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