System Design Patterns: From Fundamentals to Real Systems
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GPU Auto-Scaling

1. The Incident

The support assistant's five-GPU fleet is running well. It sits at 70% utilization, batches are full, and finance is satisfied. Then marketing lands a morning-show mention. This is the scaling module's TV spike, now with GPUs. Traffic quadruples in fifteen minutes.

The autoscaler was configured web-style, because that is what the team knew. It fails three separate ways, in order.

The signal lies, twice. The scaler watches CPU, but the work is on the GPU

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