Automation is the key to improving your application's reliability. Try to automate everything from application deployment and configuration to the overall infrastructure. Automation provides you with agility where your team can move fast and experiment more often. You can replicate the entire system infrastructure and the environment with a single click to try a new feature.
You can plan the auto scaling of your application based on a schedule, for example, an e-commerce website has more user traffic on weekends. You can also automate scaling based on the user request volume to handle the unpredictable workload. Use automation to launch independent and parallel simulation jobs that will provide greater accuracy when combined with the results from the first simulation job. Repeating the same steps to configure each environment manually can be error prone. There is always a chance of human error, such as a typo, for example, in a database name.
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