Disaster Recovery Patterns in AWS
There are four levels of DR protection in AWS. DR patterns: From least costly and complex to most. 1-Backup and restore. Admins typically choose this option fo…
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Side Car Pattern for Containers
A common Cloud pattern especially with a container deployment model, is to use a side car in which we deploy components of an application into a separate proce…
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Cloud Native, some key ideas
Cloud native is a target model for most firms. Cloud native refers to using the native services and API integrations, along with the platform’s native PaaS off…
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3 Myths around Multi-Cloud
Cloud is King, but at times the myths around the King are difficult to comprehend. The ‘Cloud’ is a complete OSI stack and platform and there are extraordinari…
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Docker – summary of what, when, why
What are Docker containers? Docker containers are lightweight application hosting environments. Like VMs, they are designed to be easily portable between diffe…
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Kubernetes and the Micro-services ‘way of thinking’
Kubernetes (K8s) use-cases are centred on scaling. Architectures which are Containerised, with hundreds, or even thousands of Containers require immutable scal…
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API and REST standards allowed an easier exchange of data and system connectivity. This has propelled the rise of containers, and Kubernetes, in which applicat…
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API Gateway and a Service Mesh: Summary of Use Cases
There is a connectivity overlap within level 7 between the API Gateway and a Service Mesh. Service Mesh’s, which are decentralized proxies running against each…
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