Design and Evaluation of a Proactive, Application-Aware Auto-Scaler
André Bauer, Nikolas Roman Herbst, Samuel Kounev · 2017
Simple, threshold-based auto-scaling mechanisms as mainly used in practice bring no features to overcome resource provisioning delays and non-linear scalability of a software service. In this tutorial paper, we guide the reader step-by-step through the design and evaluation of a proactive and application-aware auto-scaling mechanism.