Database Sharding: A Deep Dive
What sharding actually is Sharding is horizontal partitioning of data across multiple independent database instances. Each shard holds a disjoint subset of the rows, runs on its own machine (or cluste
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Improving Application Reliability in Kubernetes with Liveness and Readiness Probes
Probes/Health Checks It can be configured to check the health of the containers running in a pod. used to determine whether a container is running or ready to receive requests A probe/health check may return the following results: Success: The co...
AWS CLI (Command Line Interface)
The AWS CLI (Command Line Interface) is a tool provided by Amazon Web Services that allows users to interact with various AWS services from a command-line interface. It provides a convenient way to manage AWS resources, automate tasks, and integrate ...
Ansible
Ansible is an open-source automation tool/configuration management tool that allows IT administrators and developers to automate the deployment, configuration, and management of software applications and infrastructure. It is designed to make complex...
Monitoring (Part: 6)
Purpose of monitoring When operating a website on AWS, you might have questions like the following: How many people are visiting my site day to day? How can I track the number of visitors over time? How will I know if the website is having perform...
DynamoDB overview
DynamoDB is a fully managed NoSQL database service that provides fast and predictable performance with seamless scalability. With DynamoDB, you can offload the administrative burdens of operating and scaling a distributed database. You don't need to ...