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Scaling & load balancingMediumSDE-2

Your notification workers autoscale on CPU at 70%, but during a big campaign the queue grows to 5 million messages while CPU stays at 30%. What went wrong and what should you scale on?

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Design a queue-based autoscaling worker platform Lesson: Autoscaling and capacity planning

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