An organization uses a four(4) node customer hosted Mule runtime cluster to host one(1) stateless api implementation. The API is accessed over HTTPS through a load balancer that uses round-robin for load distribution. Each node in the cluster has been sized to be able to accept four(4) times the current number of requests.
Two(2) nodes in the cluster experience a power outage and are no longer available. The load balancer directs the outage and blocks the two unavailable the nodes from receiving further HTTP requests.
What performance-related consequence is guaranteed to happen to average, assuming the remaining cluster nodes are fully operational?
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* '100% increase in the throughput of the API' might look correct, as the number of requests processed per second might increase, but is it guaranteed to increase by 100%? Using 4 nodes will definitely increase throughput of system. But it is cant be precisely said if there would be 100% increase in throughput as it depends on many other factors. Also it is nowhere mentioned in the description that all nodes have same CPU/memory assigned. The question is about the guaranteed behavior * Increasing number of nodes will have no impact on response time as we are scaling application horizontally and not vertically. Similarly there is no change in JVM heap memory usage. * So Correct answer is 50% reduction in the number of requests being received by each node This is because of the two reasons. 1) API is mentioned as stateless 2) Load Balancer is used
