Scaling

An Introduction to Mesosphere — step-by-step Docker tutorial on Progressive Robot

An Introduction to Mesosphere

Mesosphere is a software solution that expands upon the cluster management capabilities of Apache Mesos with additional components to provide a new and novel way to manage server infrastructures. In this tutorial, we will briefly explain what each key component of Mesosphere does, starting with Apache Mesos, and show how each is used in the context of Mesosphere.

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How To Prepare For Your MySQL 5.7 Upgrade — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Prepare For Your MySQL 5.7 Upgrade

This tutorial will help you prepare to upgrade to MySQL 5.7 from earlier versions. It covers `sql_mode` with practical examples of query responses that get stricter. The tutorial also contains instructions for checking for warnings and errors, and contains a sample config file so you can test the new settings before upgrading. This article is from the [MySQL Team at Oracle](http://www.oracle.com/us/products/mysql/mysqlcommunityserver/overview/index.html).

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The Docker Ecosystem: Service Discovery and Distributed Configuration Stores — step-by-step Docker tutorial on Progressive Robot

The Docker Ecosystem: Service Discovery and Distributed Configuration Stores

One of the core technologies that many Docker environments rely on is service discovery. Service discovery allows an application or component to discover information about their environment and neighbors. In this guide, we will discuss the benefits of service discovery within a clustered Docker environment. We will focus mainly on general concepts, but provide more specific examples where appropriate.

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How To Scale Ruby on Rails Applications Across Multiple Droplets (Part 1) — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Scale Ruby on Rails Applications Across Multiple Droplets (Part 1)

In this the cloud provider article we are going to see how to simply scale Ruby on Rails applications horizontally, distributing its load across multiple machines running on Unicorn all carefully set up behind a master load balancer running Nginx HTTP server, tasked with welcoming and handling the incoming requests and balancing the load.

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