CPU Limits vs Memory Limits: When 'Survival' Means Different Things
In my previous post, I said: “CPU limits are about performance. Memory limits are about survival.” I stand by that statement, but I oversimplified what “survival” actually means depending on what kind of application you’re running. Let me break this down. Stateless Applications: The “Easy” Case When I wrote about memory limits being “about survival,” I was thinking primarily of stateless services. You know, the typical microservices: APIs, web servers, queue consumers. ...