Container Calculation


### Container Capacity Calculation
To handle 15,000 requests per second with a base container capacity of 500 requests per second and a 30% safety margin:

1.  **Base Containers Needed:** 15,000 / 500 = 30 containers
2.  **Safety Buffer (30%):** 30 * 0.30 = 9 containers
3.  **Total Required Containers:** 30 + 9 = **39 containers**

### Cold Start Mitigation Strategy
To prevent dropped requests or high latency when spinning up new containers:
1.  **Pre-warming (Provisioned Concurrency):** Maintain a buffer of extra "warm" containers running just above the current traffic demands.
2.  **Health & Readiness Probes:** Ensure the load balancer only routes traffic to containers that have passed their readiness checks and are fully booted.
3.  **Image Optimization:** Keep Docker images small (e.g., using Alpine Linux) so Ghaymah can pull and extract the image rapidly.

### Using Ghaymah Block Storage for Stateful Workloads
Because containers are ephemeral, stateful workloads (like databases) lose data if a container crashes. Ghaymah Block Storage solves this:
1.  **Provision & Mount:** A persistent block storage volume is provisioned and mounted to a specific directory path inside the container 
2.  **Persistence:** The application writes data directly to this external volume. If the container is destroyed or rescheduled, the volume easily reattaches to the new container, ensuring zero data loss.