Cloud Responsiveness

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Critical mechanisms to ensure responsiveness, improve performance, and effectively handle fluctuating workloads:

• Load balancing
  • Distributes network traffic across multiple servers or services to improve performance and provide high availability
  • are intermediaries (proxies) between users and back-end resources
  • distribute incoming requests to different resources using sophisticated algorithms and handle server capacity, response time, and workload
• Edge computing
  • Optimizes the geographic location of resources and services to enable faster processing and reduced latency
  • Instead of routing all data to a centralized cloud datacenter,
    • edge computing utilizes distributed computing resources to minimize the distance data needs to travel
      • reducing network latency and improving responsiveness
  • beneficial for applications that require real-time or low-latency processing
    • e.g., IoT devices, CDNs, etc.
• Auto-scaling
  • Is an automated process that adjusts the computing resources allocated to an application based on demand