Understanding SLA (Service Level Agreement) In Cloud Services: How Is SLA Calculated In Large-Scale Services?
An SLA (Service Level Agreement) is a contract or agreement between a service provider and the consumer that defines the expectations a consumer should have from the service provided by the service provider. An SLA helps maintain service standards and establishes service providers’ accountability towards...
Database Architecture – Part 2 – NoSQL DB Architecture with ScyllaDB (Shard Per Core Design)
In the first post of database architecture, I discussed the internal architecture of databases/database management systems, taking a peek into the architectures of MySQL and CockroachDB databases. In another article, a continuation of that article, I discussed how modern cloud servers run parallel compute to...
Parallel Processing: How Modern Cloud Servers Leverage Different System Architectures to Optimize Parallel Compute
Modern cloud servers leverage several system architectures to process data parallelly, which increases throughput, minimizes latency and optimizes resource consumption. In this article, I’ll discuss those system architectures and we’ll get an insight into how distributed services leverage these architectures to scale. With that being said....
Application Hosting – How PolyHaven Manages 5 Million Page Views and 80TB Traffic a Month for < $400
Polyhaven, a 3D asset library, recently provided insightful data on how they manage to serve 5 million page views a month, consuming a bandwidth of 80 terabytes just under 400 USD. If the same amount of traffic was served from AWS S3 object storage, that would cost more than 4K USD a month. So how do...
Twitter’s Migration to Google Cloud – An Architectural Insight
This is my second write-up on the infrastructure @Twitter. In the first, I delved into the database technologies leveraged by the social platform to store petabytes of data generated every single day. Twitter recently moved a part of their workload to the Google Cloud to...
What is an Instance in Cloud Computing? – A Thorough Guide
This write-up is an insight into cloud instances. In the cloud computing universe, we hear this term all the time: instances spinning up based on the demand, instances going down and such. I’ll cover all the frequently asked questions on it such as what is...
Understanding Workload and its Types in the Cloud
This write-up is an insight into cloud workloads. It addresses questions such as What are they? What does a workload mean in the cloud computing space? How are they classified? How many types of workloads are there? and so on. So, without further ado.Let’s jump...
How Evernote Migrated & Scaled their Workload with Google Cloud Platform
Evernote has over 200 million happy customers with approx. 5 billion user notes and 5 billion user-uploaded attachments. That’s over 3.5 petabytes of data. To put things into perspective, this is equivalent to roughly 10 copies of every book ever published. In the recent past,...
How to choose the right cloud provider for your application – A thorough guide
In the present startup and enterprise landscape cloud deployments is a norm. If you want to scale seamlessly, you need to be on the cloud either on public or on-prem. There are numerous reasons why a business would want to deploy its services on the...
What is cAdvisor? How Does it Work? Explained
This article is an insight into cAdvisor – an open-source tool for running performance analysis and collecting usage data from the containers. In addition to discussing its features, I’ll also share a bit of my industry experience with the tool. So, without further ado.Let’s get...
What is Grafana? Why Use It? Everything You Should Know About It
This article is an in-depth write-up on Grafana – An open-source tool for running analytics and monitoring our systems online. It contains answers to all our questions about it such as what is it? Why use it? Can I deploy it on-prem? How popular is...
What is On-Premises or On-Prem – Everything You Should Know
This write-up is an insight into on-prem/on-premises deployment. It answers your queries such as: What is on-prem? How different is it from a public cloud deployment? Is private cloud and on-prem the same thing? How do I know what would be ideal for my business? So,...
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