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How does it scale?

Practice this question
  • Estimate request rate and model/tool amplification, provider quotas, concurrency, history size, corpus updates, and review arrival rate.
  • Scale stateless APIs, separate ingestion from chat, bound queues, isolate noisy tenants, and serialize conflicting updates to the same run.

Operational requirement: demonstrate restart, redeploy, permission change, provider outage, backup recovery, and workload bursts. More replicas cannot fix a quota, a stale index, or an unbounded agent.

Adapted from 13_AI.MD · “12. How does it scale?”. Code examples are study fragments. Difficulty and core labels are editorial estimates; version-specific behavior should be checked against your project.