Abstract
Regional Shrink Testing is disclosed for empirical capacity validation in distributed computing infrastructure. A controller configures a production region by applying safeguards such as disabling autoscaling and isolating load balancing behavior, captures baseline metrics, and iteratively reduces active service instances while maintaining substantially constant production traffic. Shrink targets may be computed proportionally per hardware type class (LSST) using resource weights, with instance selection based on priority and/or random sampling. A monitoring layer evaluates stopper metrics at a percentile across active hosts and classifies health into multiple levels to control shrinking, backoff, and peak detection based on sustained threshold durations. The system records throughput, hardware composition, and aggregated resource-weight totals, derives empirical resource-per-throughput and supply accuracy values, restores region state, and exports results for capacity model recalibration, throughput-to-resource mapping updates, and supply/headroom configuration.
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Anonymous, "Regional Shrink Testing for Empirical Capacity Validation in Distributed Computing Infrastructure", Technical Disclosure Commons, ()
https://www.tdcommons.org/dpubs_series/10762