Memory management in cloud environments

While traditional desktop and web environments have established memory management practices, cloud environments introduce unique complexities. Desktop applications operate on a single machine with fixed memory and CPU resources. So, memory management techniques focus on maximizing the use of these static resources. Web applications run on servers with predictable resource limits. While scaling is possible, this often involves adding more servers or upgrading existing ones with relatively static resource allocation.

Developing a cloud application usually means that you want to facilitate dynamic scaling and resource allocation. Cloud applications must handle both vertical (adding more resources to an existing instance) and horizontal (adding more instances) scaling. This requires sophisticated memory management to ensure efficiency and cost-effectiveness.

We have reviewed some general instrumentations and monitoring practices in a previous...