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MongoDB Taught Its Database to See the Future

How Atlas built a predictive auto-scaler that scales before your servers break a sweat

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Jun 01, 2026
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Reactive auto-scaling has a fundamental problem: by the time it kicks in, you’re already overloaded. The scaling operation itself takes several minutes. You’ve spent real money on degraded perfor…

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