Context aware scaling in a distributed system

A distributed processing system, comprising:

• a cloud-based network having an orchestrator and a plurality of application pods, each application pod including an application and an exporter configured to provide telemetry information for the associated application;
• a back-end system having a database to store the telemetry information and an application analysis module configured to receive the telemetry information from the application pods, to determine an interdependency between the applications, to determine a scaling between the applications, and to direct the orchestrator to launch the applications based on the scaling, wherein in determining the interdependency between the applications, the application analysis module is further configured to create an application wants matrix that correlates a first application with a number of instantiations of a second application.