uday.chauhan

uday.chauhan

Data consistency in distributed system

In this post, we give a short tutorial on consistency levels - explaining what they do, and how they work. Much of the existing literature and online discussion of consistency levels are done in the context of multi-processor or distributed systems that operate on a single data item at a time, without the concept of a “transaction”. In this post we give some direction for how to think about consistency levels in the context of ACID-compliant database systems.

Ingress vs. Load Balancer in Kubernetes

1. Introduction For many software applications, communicating with external services is necessary to complete their tasks. Whether sending messages or consuming APIs, most applications rely on other systems to function properly.As more and more users move their applications into Kubernetes, providing…