Author: MW Team
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Vertical vs. Horizontal Scaling: Which one to choose
Scalability is gaining traction and dynamism in the tech space. It’s a well-known concept among information technology (IT) and data professionals who often deal with changing application and system processing requirements. Scalability is measured by the ability of applications or systems to handle simultaneous requests. If an application or system can’t cope with increasing demand,…
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What are Microservices? How Microservices architecture works
In recent years, the ubiquity of mobile computing has required application developers to deploy actions quickly and make changes to applications without complete redeployment. This has led to a new development paradigm called “microservices.” Microservices are lightweight, self-contained components that perform respective functions within an application, communicating with each other via APIs. This new approach…
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What is AutoScaling? Explained in Detail (Updated)
If an organization wants to expand significantly, its websites, applications, or other online platforms must be able to handle the increased traffic and usage. Every application obtains the computing power it requires from a server or group of servers, also known as a server farm, on which the application is hosted. Each server has a…
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Why are we still using Round-Robin Load Balancers?
Round robin is one of the most extensively used load balancing techniques. Despite the development of many advanced load balancing methods, round robin is still relevant because it’s easy to understand and implement. It’s a relatively simple way of cyclically distributing client requests to multiple servers. This is particularly useful in high traffic situations where…
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The top 5 challenges for Kubernetes users and their solutions
Kubernetes or K8s, as you know, is an open-source container orchestration system that is used for automating computer application scaling, management, and deployment. Designed by Google and maintained by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, Kubernetes is the solution of choice for many developers. While Kubernetes is an ideal solution to most microservice application delivery problems,…
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Maximizing Cloud Performance: The Importance of Load Balancing
If recent cloud computing forecasts and predictions are anything to go by, the world will soon witness a booming cloud market much more expansive than what we’ve seen so far. By 2025, cloud storage will account for over 100 zettabytes of data (one zettabyte is equal to a trillion gigabytes). As far as cloud data…