Category: Availability & Scalability

Availability & Scalability - Managed Cloud Services

Disaster Recovery: From Cloud Infrastructure And Beyond

Disasters can and do happen. A range of threats and disasters can affect your company. They could be cyberattacks, but they could also just as likely be a natural disaster like, say, a pandemic. As the saying goes, hope for the best and prepare for the worst. When it comes to protecting your organization and…

Availability & Scalability - DevOps - Infrastructure as Code

Making Your Infrastructure and Applications Available and Scalable

In the process of growing your business, you have most likely learned that meeting customer demand and being consistently available to your customers are two of the most important things your business must do. Furthermore, you probably already know that the cloud enables both. In fact, both are some of the main reasons businesses are…

Availability & Scalability - CI/CD - DevOps - Infrastructure as Code

An Important Part of Cloud Migrations: Testing People

Probably we all understand that any migration should be preceded by simulations in order to provide the best possible opportunity for success. What is often missed or underestimated, however, is the importance of including people in this process.

Availability & Scalability - Kubernetes

Kubernetes Nginx Ingress: Consistent hash subset load balancer

Last month we got a Pull Request with a new feature merged into the Kubernetes Nginx Ingress Controller codebase. This feature request came from a client that needs a specific behavior of the Load Balancer not available on any Ingress Controller. Link to the PR: https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/pull/3396/ What’s the use case? Our client’s software is a…

Availability & Scalability - DevOps - Infrastructure as Code

Failover is dead

When doing a quick Google search of the keywords “failover meaning”, you will find this definition: “a procedure by which a system automatically transfers control to a duplicate system when it detects a fault or failure.” The definition is perfect, but the concept is broken. Failover is broken. It was ostensibly a good idea years…