Tag: Architecture

What is High Availability? A Tutorial

Posted on August 6, 2020 by David Singer

Category: Tutorials | Tags: 2Nx Models, Architecture, Autonomous, Availability, Backups, Best Practice, Clustering, Deployment, Design, Disaster Recovery, Downtime, Engineered, Fault Tolerance, HA Cluster, Heartbeat, High Availability, Infrastructure, Monitoring, Node, Nx Models, Orchestrated, Pacemaker, Redundancy, Reliability, Replication, Scalability, Single Point of Failure, Split Brain, System, Testing, Uptime

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High availability is the description of a system designed to be fault-tolerant, highly dependable, operates continuously without intervention, or having a single point of failure. These systems are highly sought after to increase the availability and uptime required to keep an infrastructure running without issue. The following characteristics define a High Availability system.

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What is Serverless? A Beginners Guide

Posted on July 20, 2020 by Dean Conally

Category: Tutorials | Tags: API, Application, Architecture, Cold Start, Computing, Container, Containerization, Containers, Event, FaaS, Framework, Functions, Functions as a Service, Infrastructure, Microservices, Serverless, Serverless Applications, Serverless Architecture, Serverless Computing, Stateless, Warm Start

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What is Serverless?

Serverless computing (or serverless for short), is an execution model where the cloud provider manages and allocates resources dynamically without the need for infrastructure. Resource allocation is based on the as needed, real-time use of your application or website. When running this type of hosting, you are only charged for the amount of resources that our code uses.

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What is Single Tenant vs Multi-Tenant Software?

Posted on September 27, 2019 by David Singer

Category: Tutorials | Tags: Architecture, Multi-Tenant, SaaS, Single Tenant, Software

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Evaluating Single-Tenant vs. Multi-Tenant Software

Today, we will be discussing the differences between Single Tenant and Multi-Tenant hosted software. In the overall scheme of SaaS delivery models, the meaning of “Tenant” is specifically utilized to denote a “customer”. So, in essence, when we say Single Tenant or Multi-Tenant, we are stating Single customer, or Multi-customer SaaS hosted software.

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