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Traffic arrives in sharp bursts and your LLM p99 spikes each time. How do you absorb the bursts?

Autoscaling reacts in minutes, but a burst hits in seconds, and the gap is where your tail latency dies. Absorbing bursts is about buffers and shedding, not just adding replicas. Here is the playbook.

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Autoscaling reacts in minutes, but a burst hits in seconds, and the gap is where your tail latency dies. Absorbing bursts is about buffers and shedding, not just adding replicas. Here is the playbook.

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