A load balancer is a critical component of any cloud-based infrastructure, as it ensures that incoming requests are distributed evenly across a group of servers or other resources. This helps to improve the performance, scalability, and reliability of the system, as it reduces the risk of any single server becoming overwhelmed and allows the workload …
In the world of cloud, object storage is one of the most common use cases. Taking advantage of cheap and practically limitless storage is not only convenient but also very cost effective. This is where Alibaba Cloud Object Storage Service comes in handy. But we will explore a feature of OSS which goes beyond just … Continue reading Magic of Real Time Image processing with Alibaba Cloud OSS
With containers and microservices in it, it is easy to get into a situation where you have hundreds of pods spread across many nodes resulting in a difficult task of monitoring what is happening in all those applications and their hosts. Imagine a situation where various microservices are running on pods in different nodes, and … Continue reading Monitoring with Prometheus
IP addresses don’t need any introduction today. We use them so frequently on a daily basis that we don’t even notice them (mostly because of user friendly domain names masking them). But what exactly is an IP address, and how does one decide which address will they get, and who is managing all this worldwide? … Continue reading IP Address – The Basics
Infrastructure as a Code is one of the many buzzwords that took the industry by storm upon the arrival of cloud computing. An extended part of the DevOps philosophy, IaC focuses on automating the creation, maintenance and destruction of infra, predominantly on cloud platform. Consider the scenario where the IT team of an organization receives … Continue reading Infrastructure as a Code (IaaC) with Terraform
For a very long time, organizations have stored information about their applications in databases. This has worked well for decades. Storing information in database eventually forces us to think about information gathering as a subset of an object or a thing. A common example of this would be a ‘user’. We think of information gathering … Continue reading Event Streaming with Apache Kafka
As you dive deeper in the world of containers, microservices and kubernetes, there are more technologies, tools and concepts that come up frequently in the discussion which didn’t exist a few years back. In one conversation on cloud native solutions, you will hear a number of new terms like knative, fluentd, fargate, helm etc and … Continue reading Exploring Service Mesh with Istio
Containers are the new teenagers on the block. With the amount of flexibility in deployment and isolation from the underlying host it brings, containers are now being looked at seriously by many organizations. Many customers that I interact with, are now working on making their applications ‘cloud native’, and shifting workloads from the VM world … Continue reading Kubernetes – The Basics
In the first part of this blog entry, we looked at what big data is, and what are the main pillars of the solution – Hadoop, MapReduce and Yarn. These technologies form the basis of many big data solutions. Let’s look at these technologies and how are they used in the field of big data … Continue reading Big Data – The Basics (Part 2)
Take a good book to bed with you, books do not snore – Thea Dorn Since the Covid lockdown, everyone I know has doubled down on their reading habits. Reading has been an activity that has entertained, amused and supported many of us all these years, but during the last few months, it has really helped people channel … Continue reading 6 books that I love
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