Company
Date Published
Author
Grace Morgan
Word count
387
Language
English
Hacker News points
1

Summary

DigitalOcean has introduced a new feature called Droplet Autoscale Pools, which automates the scaling of Droplets based on resource utilization. This feature helps businesses pay only for the compute resources they need, reducing costs and optimizing performance. With Droplet Autoscaling, users can set minimum and maximum numbers of Droplets, and the system will dynamically add or remove them to meet performance requirements. The new feature is designed to ensure high availability and reliability for applications, while also providing cost efficiency and seamless integration with DigitalOcean's load balancers. Users can create an Autoscale Pool through the DigitalOcean dashboard or API, define scaling parameters, and let Autoscaling take over, dynamically adjusting infrastructure as needed.