About PaaS Agents
Frends PaaS Agents are the Agents hosted by Frends in the Frends cloud.
Frends PaaS Agent Performance
Frends Agents in PaaS are hosted in Azure and run on virtual machines. Frends guarantees 99.5% availability for PaaS Agents.
A simple performance reference:
A Frends PaaS Agent can process 200 API calls per second with a 25KB payload JSON message, each in the scenario where the JSON data is stored in a high-performance database. This is in virtual machine in Azure with a 3,5 GB memory per PaaS Agent.
Currently the memory amount per Agent cannot be increased in Frends PaaS Agents.
Scaling of a PaaS Agent
As availability is guaranteed in Frends PaaS Agents, the scalability factor left to manage is performance.
In case more performance is required, horizontal scaling is an option. This means adding more Agents to the Agent Group or Groups to ensure the performance level required. In the Frends PaaS Agent case, adding new Agents to an Agent Group is done by Frends per the customer's request.
The next article is Scaling PaaS Agents - Where to get help?