Scaling

How To Set Up a Serf Cluster on Several Ubuntu VPS — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Set Up a Serf Cluster on Several Ubuntu VPS

Serf is a decentralized service orchestration and service discovery tool. It is extremely fault tolerant and decentralized, with no single point of failure like other similar tools. Serf can be used to trigger any event across a cluster of systems as well as perform monitoring duties. It’s built on top of the Gossip protocol which is designed for decentralized communication.

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An Introduction to Big Data Concepts and Terminology — step-by-step DevOps tutorial on Progressive Robot

An Introduction to Big Data Concepts and Terminology

Big data is a blanket term for the non-traditional strategies and technologies needed to gather, organize, process, and gather insights from large data sets. While the problem of working with data that exceeds the computing power or storage of a single computer is not…

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5 Common Server Setups For Your Web Application — step-by-step Web Servers tutorial on Progressive Robot

5 Common Server Setups For Your Web Application

When deciding which server architecture to use for your environment, there are many factors to consider, such as performance, scalability, availability, reliability, cost, and ease of management. Here is a list of commonly used server setups, with a short description of each, including pros and cons. Keep in mind that all of the concepts covered here can be used in various combinations with one another, and there is no single, correct configuration.

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