Turbopuffer halves queue time after fixing deceptively hard autoscaling

DanielLockyer · x · 2026-07-23

Turbopuffer says autoscaling is deceptively hard: its indexer fleet scaled nodes based on queue wait time, and when a queue went quiet it could scale down too aggressively.

That caused new jobs to wait for nodes to come back. The team adjusted the HPA signal and cut queue time by about 2×.

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