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It is in general never possible because if your load can scale infinitely, then there won’t ever be enough compute to satisfy it. In practice, you may be able to apply some assumptions to bound the amount of compute necessary. It is still almost always good to have a plan on how to shed load if your assumptions fail. Systems built without this are prone to failing catastrophically.



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