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Scaling & load balancingEasySDE-1
Your app runs on one large VM and CPU is at 85% at peak. Your manager asks: should we buy a bigger machine or add more machines? How do you decide?
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Answer out loud as you would in the room — clarify, give numbers, name the trade-off — then compare with the model answer.
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