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Pods in Kubernetes are the smallest orchestration unit and are ephemeral by definition: Deployment/StatefulSet/DaemonSet/ReplicaSet updates or patches Nodepool downscaling (compaction) or upgrades (cordoned and drained)
Summary To achieve zero-downtime service update, Kubernetes rolling update implies the API must be both forward and backward compatible. Forward compatibility is hard if at all makes sense. Blue-green update...
Imagine you run a single page app at example.com that communicates with backends over restful API and is authenticated with JWT tokens managed by you, but identities are managed by...
Imagine your app is doing tremendously well with growing traffics. If there is a single server for your app, and the server is approaching its capacity, how would you scale...
Message queues are an asynchronous inter-process communication protocol that gains much of its glory with the recent hypes in microservices. Senders and receivers do not interact with the middleware at...
HTTP provides an abstraction of short connections. Unlike the continuous byte streams in TCP, exchanges between client and server over HTTP starts with a client request and ends with server...
A common design for content display, pagination partitions information into multiple pages and serves one at a time. We have seen it in search results, message history, and cascading news...
I have been working with another three wonderful people on the senior design project, which is a web application of an inventory management system, and the production is up at...
All teams will henceforth expose their data and functionality through service interfaces. There will be no other form of inter-process communication (IPC) allowed: no direct linking, no direct reads of...
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