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State machine diagram

State machine diagram

- [Instructor] When creating a state diagram, let's remind ourselves of what they do. A state diagram is modeling the behavior of a system. Now, if you have a system, a computer system, it's up, it's down, there's a failure. So a transition between the different states. It's down, I should do something, maybe an automated solution. The states represent a condition or a situation. I'm online, I'm not online. The transitions between the different states, that's what we're interested in. What is going to be the solution or the response? Let's take an example of auto-scaling. Auto-scaling a service which can automatically scale the compute of your web or application, or even database servers, up and down based on demand. Behind the scene, there's some logic behind this process. When it's time to scale out, let's say your web servers are getting overloaded, the command is issued by the auto-scaling group, the group that is…

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