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The Good and the Bad of Kubernetes Container Orchestration

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Kubernetes load balancer to optimize performance and improve app stability The goal of load balancing is to evenly distribute incoming traffic across machines, enabling an app to remain stable and easily handle a large number of client requests. But there are other pros worth mentioning.

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Software Engineering Daily: Feature Flags with Edith Harbaugh

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Serverless functions let you quickly spin-up cost-efficient, short-lived infrastructure. IBM Developer is a community of developers learning how to build entire applications with AI, containers, blockchains, serverless functions and anything else you might want to learn about. JM: They’re doing load balancing via feature flags?

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The Good and the Bad of Docker Containers

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Then deploy the containers and load balance them to see the performance. The Good and the Bad of the SAP Business Intelligence Platform. The Good and the Bad of Serverless Architecture. With horizontal scaling, you create and deploy multiple containers required for workloads. Flexibility and versatility.

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The Good and the Bad of the Elasticsearch Search and Analytics Engine

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Instead, it acts as a smart load balancer that forwards requests to appropriate nodes (master or data nodes) in the cluster. Replicas Replica shards are copies of your primary shards and serve two main purposes: fault tolerance and load balancing. Having replica shards ensures your data is not lost if a node fails.