Abstract: In some embodiments, a server system may re-allocate a resource to a node from a shared pool of available resources and reschedule the added allocation. Some embodiments may use such operations to avoid triggering application-terminating thresholds and increase the efficiency and consistency of a networked computing system. In response to obtaining a result indicating whether an action will cause a resource allocation level of a node to fail to satisfy a threshold, some embodiments may delay the action by a buffer duration and allocate a set of resources from a resource pool to the node. As such, in some embodiments, the set of resources may be available to the node before an end of the buffer duration. Thus, at the end of the buffer duration or after the buffer duration, some embodiments may execute the action without triggering a failure condition related to the node.

Abstract: Various techniques for processing sensitive data in an isolated incubator system within a service-provider network are described. The incubator system, for instance, is isolated from a client system in the service-provider network. In an example method, the incubator system receives an indication of an operation, and first encrypted data, from the client system. The incubator system converts the first encrypted data to plaintext and performs the operation. The incubator system converts the processed data into second encrypted data and provides the second encrypted data to the client system. Thus, the incubator system performs the operation on the data without exposing the data to the client system in the plaintext format.