When traffic spikes, apps can fail. Are you ready? Architect your apps for scale, uptime, and the unexpected. In this practical guide written by a distributed systems expert, learn how to build apps that scale to handle unpredictable traffic with zero downtime for customers. In this book excerpt you will learn: How scaling affects the ...

In this practical guide, four Kubernetes pros guide you through the process of building applications with this container orchestration system. You will learn: How to manage state and stateful applications with Kubernetes volumes and storage best practices The role and best practice uses of StatefulSets and Operators Managing streaming data services and databases with Kubernetes ...

Each year, Cockroach Labs develops the only cloud performance report comparing the three largest U.S. cloud providers — AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud — using industry-standard benchmarks that reflect real-world, critical applications and workloads. For the 2021 Cloud Report, we ran over 1,000 tests to evaluate each provider on CPU, network throughput and latency, storage ...