Dynamic adjustment of application resources in a distributed computing system

A method comprising:

• monitoring, by a first computing device, loading of a subject application instance of a bundled application executing in a first container on the first computing device, the bundled application including a plurality of application instances executing on a plurality of computing devices, the subject application instance executing on a subject computing device that is one of the first computing device and a second computing device of the plurality of computing devices;
• (a) determining, by the first computing device, that loading of the subject application instance exceeds a first threshold condition;
• in response to (a), increasing, by the first computing device, an allocation of processing cores to the first container;
• receiving, by a kernel executing on the subject computing device, a system call to retrieve a number of processors of the subject computing device;
• intercepting, by the kernel, the system call;
• and
• returning, by the kernel, in response to the system call, the allocation of processing cores to the first container.