Automatic diagonal scaling of workloads in a distributed computing environment

A system for automatic diagonal scaling of workloads in a distributed computing environment, the system comprising:

• at least one processor executing instructions stored in a memory, wherein the processor device, when executing the instructions:
• determines, for each of a plurality of resources of each of a plurality of application instances, whether a change in allocation of at least one of the plurality of resources is required;
• computes operations requirements for each of the plurality of application instances, the computed requirements including vertical increase and decrease operations, and horizontal split and collapse operations;
• processes the vertical decrease and horizontal collapse operations;
• orders the vertical increase and horizontal split operations;
• and
• processes the vertical increase and horizontal split operations based on the ordering, thereby optimizing application efficiency and utilization of the plurality of resources in the distributed computing environment.

A computer program product for automatic diagonal scaling of workloads in a distributed computing environment by at least one processor, the computer program product embodied on a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having computer-readable program code portions stored therein, the computer-readable program code portions comprising:

• an executable portion that determines, for each of a plurality of resources of each of a plurality of application instances, whether a change in allocation of at least one of the plurality of resources is required;
• an executable portion that computes operations requirements for each of the plurality of application instances, the computed requirements including vertical increase and decrease operations, and horizontal split and collapse operations;
• an executable portion that processes the vertical decrease and horizontal collapse operations;
• an executable portion that orders the vertical increase and horizontal split operations;
• and
• an executable portion that processes the vertical increase and horizontal split operations based on the ordering, thereby optimizing application efficiency and utilization of the plurality of resources in the distributed computing environment.