Papers

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Papers

Yara Amin

Wednesday, August 19, 2026

Evaluating Kubernetes Autoscaling Strategies Under Bursty Loads

A small benchmark comparing HPA signals, queue depth, and stabilization windows under controlled traffic bursts.

Engineer working at a laptop

Papers

Yara Amin

Wednesday, August 19, 2026

Evaluating Kubernetes Autoscaling Strategies Under Bursty Loads

A small benchmark comparing HPA signals, queue depth, and stabilization windows under controlled traffic bursts.

Server hardware detail

Papers

Yara Amin

Sunday, July 19, 2026

A Comparative Study of Redis Eviction Policies for Session Workloads

Methodology and results from a focused test of eviction behavior under realistic session churn.

Server hardware detail

Papers

Yara Amin

Sunday, July 19, 2026

A Comparative Study of Redis Eviction Policies for Session Workloads

Methodology and results from a focused test of eviction behavior under realistic session churn.

Engineer working at a laptop

Papers

Yara Amin

Friday, June 19, 2026

Measuring Cold-Start Impact in Serverless APIs

A measured investigation into runtime initialization, bundle size, and request-shaping strategies.

Engineer working at a laptop

Papers

Yara Amin

Friday, June 19, 2026

Measuring Cold-Start Impact in Serverless APIs

A measured investigation into runtime initialization, bundle size, and request-shaping strategies.

Server hardware detail

Papers

Yara Amin

Tuesday, May 19, 2026

Queue Depth as a Leading Indicator of Service Saturation

An experiment testing when queue depth becomes a more actionable capacity signal than CPU utilization.

Server hardware detail

Papers

Yara Amin

Tuesday, May 19, 2026

Queue Depth as a Leading Indicator of Service Saturation

An experiment testing when queue depth becomes a more actionable capacity signal than CPU utilization.

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