Systems and methods for dynamic allocation of computing resources for microservice architecture type applications

A system for scaling a number of computer processing units, comprising:

• one or more processors and one or more storage devices storing instructions that are operable, when executed by the one or more processors, to cause the one or more processors to:
• receive processing requests, each processing request requiring a first processing service and a subsequent second processing service that receives output from the first service, processes the output and completes the processing request;
• monitor, for each request, at each of a plurality of times that precede a predefined time, a plurality of previous processing events in an event sequence of the first processing service that processes the request, each of the previous processing events having an associated action type that is different from an associated action type of at least one later action performed by the second processing service that further processes the output of the first processing service for at least one of the requests, to provide previous events data;
• select a number of computer processing units to perform the at least one later action of the second processing service at the predefined time, to select being based on the previous events data;
• and
• make available at the predefined time the selected number of computer processing units to perform the at least one later action of the second processing service to complete the at least one of the requests.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon one or more sequence of instructions for causing one or more processors to perform:

• receiving processing requests, each processing request requiring a first processing service and a subsequent second processing service that receives output from the first service, processes the output and completes the processing request;
• monitoring, for each request, at each of a plurality of times that precede a predefined time, a plurality of previous processing events in an event sequence of the first processing service that processes the request, each of the previous processing events having an associated action type that is different from an associated action type of at least one later action performed by the second processing service that further processes the output of the first processing service for at least one of the requests, to provide previous events data;
• selecting a number of computer processing units to perform the at least one later action of the second processing service at the predefined time, the selecting being based on the previous events data;
• and
• making available at the predefined time the selected number of computer processing units to perform the at least one later action of the second processing service to complete the at least one of the requests.