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Users

Understand how unpredictable user behavior and traffic affect distributed systems. Learn to assess system capacity, respond to excessive demand, and use autoscaling wisely to maintain stability and prevent failures during high load.

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Users and systems

Users are terrible. Systems would be much better off with no users. Obviously, we’re being somewhat tongue-in-cheek. Although users do present numerous risks to stability, they’re also the reason our systems exist. Yet the human users of a system ...