US Patent Issued to Snowflake on Sept. 1 for "Container service auto scaling and suspension techniques" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,648, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).

"Container service auto scaling and suspension techniques" was invented by Snigdha Goel (Bothell, Wash.), Yichao Hou (Bellevue, Wash.) and Deepak Verma (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cluster is provided to execute at least one containerized service in a cloud data platform. One or more monitor agents deployed on a plurality of worker nodes in the cluster collect a set of metrics associated with the at least one containerized service. A controller in the cluster aggregates the set of metrics according to at least one aggregation type defined in ...