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Zero Configuration Service Mesh with On-Demand Cluster Discovery

Netflix Tech

In 2010, however, nearly none of it existed: the CNCF wasn’t formed until 2015! For Inter-Process Communication (IPC) between services, we needed the rich feature set that a mid-tier load balancer typically provides. Since there were no existing solutions available, we needed to build them ourselves.

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Comparing API Architectural Styles: SOAP vs REST vs GraphQL vs RPC

Altexsoft

These specifications make up the API architecture. Over time, different API architectural styles have been released. A pull of choices raises endless debates as to which architectural style is best. gRPC is the latest RPC version developed by Google in 2015. API styles over time, Source: Rob Crowley. How RPC works.

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AWS Web Talk: Intelligent Cloud Orchestration and Container Program Overview

Blue Sentry

I’m often asked by Executives to explain Cloud-native architectures so I’ve put together a multi-part series explaining common patterns and Technical jargon like container orchestration, streaming applications, and event-driven architectures. This is container orchestration.

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REST API: Key Concepts, Best Practices, and Benefits

Altexsoft

REST is short for Representational State Transfer, an architectural style for building web services that interact via an HTTP protocol. Layered architecture. Due to the layered architecture, you can place a proxy or load balancer between the client and server and thus improve scalability.

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Infrastructure as Code Explained: Benefits, Types, and Tools

Altexsoft

Without IaC, the team would individually configure the infrastructure (servers, databases, load balancers, containers, etc.) Acquired by RedHat in 2015, Ansible is an open-source configuration management tool, written in Python and supporting any language that can return JSON, so it’s rather easy to learn. for each deployment.

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What is gRPC: Main Concepts, Pros and Cons, Use Cases

Altexsoft

While REST focuses on request-response architecture, gRPC provides support for data streaming with event-driven architectures: server-side streaming, client-side streaming, and bidirectional streaming. This specification was published in 2015 and improved on the HTTP/1.1 Built-in code generation. More connection options.

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A Digital Ecommerce Transformation – 2012, The First Cloud Holiday – Part XXII

Joel Crabb

We had adopted the strategy of shunting small amounts of traffic to our new systems, than turning up the dial with global load balancing as we learned how to operate them. The next three years continued the evolution from ATG to cloud distributed architecture. Remember, everything was new.