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System Design Interview: Scaling Single Server
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...
Docker: The Container Metaphor with Profound Revolution
Many regard containers as a virtualization technology. They are missing out. Docker has much more to offer. It is a graceful solution to some of the most painful experience in...
Istio: Noninvasive Governance of Microservices on Hybrid Cloud
As presented in my previous post, microservices are the state-of-the-art architecture for building scalable, highly-available, manageable backend. No more 30-minute build time, single point of failure, and constant regression from...
Killer Apps of Message Queues
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...
A Primer on Secure Communication Channels
In the world of internet, sending messages in clear text is like swimming naked. We would love some secure communication channels free from eavesdropping or tampering. Security as such is...
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