For the TL;DR version, skip straight to the Cassandra Examples Intro & Background During my years at PayPal I was fortunate enough to be a part of a pioneering architecture & engineering team that designed & delivered a new paradigm for how we deployed & operated applications using a model that included 5 Availability Zones per […]
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Consul for Service Discovery
Why Service Discovery ? Service Discovery effectively replaces the process of having to manually assign or automate your own DNS entries for nodes on your network. Service Discovery aims to move even further away from treating VM’s like pets to cattle, by getting rid of the age old practice of Hostname & FQDN having contextual value. […]
Continue ReadingDeployment Architecture & Stateless vs. Stateful Services
The following is intended to be a primer on deployment architecture for systems engineers & software engineers. This is the first architecturally focused post on this blog. The hope is that it will serve as a foundation for future architecturally focused blog posts that I hope you find value in. The Motivation For This Article […]
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