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Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime?—?Part 1

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Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime — Part 1 Shyam Gala , Javier Fernandez-Ivern , Anup Rokkam Pratap , Devang Shah Hundreds of millions of customers tune into Netflix every day, expecting an uninterrupted and immersive streaming experience. This approach has a handful of benefits.

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Architecture Patterns: The Circuit-Breaker

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This ensures that a failing service doesn’t continue receiving traffic until it recovers, preventing further strain and potential cascading failures.

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Istio Explained: Unlocking the Power of Service Mesh in Microservices

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This article delves deep into the essence of Istio, illustrating its pivotal role in a Kubernetes (KIND) based environment, and guides you through a Helm-based installation process, ensuring a comprehensive understanding of Istio's capabilities and its impact on microservices architecture.

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Demystifying Kuma Service Mesh

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Service mesh emerged as a response to the growing popularity of cloud-native environments, microservices architecture, and Kubernetes. It has its roots in the three-tiered model of application architecture. Under a heavy load, the application could break if the traffic routing, load balancing, etc., were not optimized.

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Datadog Creates Scalable Data Ingestion Architecture

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Datadog created a dedicated data ingestion architecture offering exactly-once semantics for their third-generation event store, Husky. The event-driven architecture (EDA) can accommodate bursts in traffic in the multi-tenant platform with reasonable ingestion latency and acceptable operational costs. By Rafal Gancarz

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Load Management With Istio Using FluxNinja Aperture

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Service meshes are becoming increasingly popular in cloud-native applications as they provide a way to manage network traffic between microservices. It offers several features, including: Prioritized load shedding: Drops traffic that is deemed less important to ensure that the most critical traffic is served.

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Monzo Employs Targeted Traffic Shedding Against Stampeding Herd Effect From the Mobile App

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Monzo developed a solution for shedding traffic in case its platform comes under intense and unexpected load that could lead to an outage. Traffic spikes can be generated by the mobile app and triggered by push notifications or other bursts in user activity.

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