Resource thresholding
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
9:47 AM
A simple calculation: 
Let P(t) be the performance of the application over time, e.g., average response time.  We want small P(t).
Let R(t) be the resources allocated to the application, e.g., application instances deployed. 
Let L(t) be the load (demand) in requests per second. 