We did multiple rounds of performance testing and monitored the CPU and memory usage for each of our conductor services (conductor, conductor-async, and conductor-sweeper). Based on which we decided the number of pods to go ahead with.

You can find all the conductor properties here: https://github.com/conductor-oss/conductor/blob/main/core/src/main/java/com/netflix/conductor/core/config/ConductorProperties.java