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FoundryDB Edge Now Stays Up On Its Own: Per-Location HA and Autoscaling

· 4 min read
FoundryDB Team
Engineering @ FoundryDB

The edge already puts a managed front end in front of your app: your own domain with an automatic certificate, caching, rate limiting, a WAF, and request analytics, served from EU points of presence. The piece you could not see was what happened when a machine behind that edge had a bad day. Today that piece is done. Every point of presence now runs as an active node with a hot standby, each location autoscales with your traffic, and if a whole location goes dark your requests are routed elsewhere and brought home when it recovers. None of it is something you configure.

PoP failover & autoscaling
Nearest PoP serves each client · HA pair + autoscaling
Clientnearest PoPserving address →PoP pairactive + standby⇢ forwardApp originyour app
Active · serving addressHot standbyFailed nodeAdded capacityClient requestForward to origin (dashed)

Predictive Autoscaling: Scale Your Database Before Demand Spikes

· 7 min read
FoundryDB Team
Engineering @ FoundryDB

Reactive autoscaling has a fundamental problem: it waits for something to go wrong. Your database hits 95% CPU, the autoscaler wakes up, requests a resize, and for the next few minutes your application eats latency while the new resources come online. If your traffic is predictable (and most production traffic is), this delay is avoidable.

FoundryDB's predictive autoscaling engine learns your workload's seasonal patterns and scales your database before demand spikes arrive. It combines real-time metric thresholds with historical baselines, anomaly detection, and configurable cost limits so you stay fast without overspending.

Vertical scaling: hot vs cold resize · online storage grow
GROW tier-4 · disk grown 200 GB · online
Servicetier-4 · 4 vCPU / 8 GBhot resize →New plan4 vCPU / 8 GBgrow only →Data disk200 GB · online
Service (resizing)New compute planReachable · online growReboot blip (cold)Data diskmounted volume (dashed)