Key Autoscaling Metric #3: Error Rates and Termination Grace Periods

Mr. Squidler brought his own whiteboard to his system design interview, does that get him bonus points?

This is the third post in our Five Key Autoscaling Metrics series; in the first post, Ian broke down the Workload Committed Capacity metric, or “why your utilization isn’t as good as you think it is”. Last week, I talked about measuring the “scale-up” …