Debugging Scaling Issues
Learn when scaling issues in software systems occur and how effective diagnosis involves monitoring performance metrics and using distributed tracing to identify and address bottlenecks.
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Identify scaling issues
Based on the software system, its use cases, runtime environments, etc., there could be many ways to inundate it with input size and rate. So, scaling issues could affect a program’s behavior in many ways, and its symptoms could also as varied. We have already learned how a large input size affects the program’s runtime, consider the following scenarios:
Imagine if a process is being bombarded with requests, the rate of incoming requests is more than the rate at which it can process them because of resource constraints. So, the time taken to process the request could spike enormously, leading to high latencies. Sometimes, this ...